Thanks to everyone who has sent nice notes about my mom. She’s doing better than we thought – they downgraded (upgraded?) her diagnosis from Stage III to Stage I lung cancer (for those of you fortunate enough not to be fluent in cancer-speak, this is a good thing) and we are hopeful that surgery…

At least it’s not just me. There is “Comfort Food” displayed all over the front of this month’s Indy Monthly, in the form of a huge headline and some sort of pasta casserole, my most recent email from fromages.com trumpets the advent of a “comforting cheeseboard”, and even upscale Dean & DeLuca is in on…

Despite the fact that I’ve been at this since early spring, I haven’t quite got the knack of blogging yet. I still wait for the right topic and, even more paralyzing, the best photo, and try to organize and polish the posts as if they were newspaper columns, instead of just letting them fly and…

We are in northern Florida for the holidays — Apalachicola, to be precise, on the gulf coast of the Panhandle.  We have a funky little cottage here — 1940s vintage and not in great shape, but we’ve covered a multitude of sins with paint.  Lime green, melon, periwinkle, aqua, yellow — get the picture?  If…