"if you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need." (cicero)

my day today was, on the whole, a simple day. delicious, carefully prepared food, good people, sweet doggies, and lots of laughing.

and then i read maira kalman's new post on food and life, which was the most perfect way to round out the day.


delicious.

why in the world

didn't anyone tell me about this show?

these two are my favorite:

true love

my feelings about new york are conflicted: some parts of the city i love - the availability of delicious food, the impressive array of people, all the details of different lives, in one place. some aspects i'm not as taken with - the prices, the constant movement, the feeling that people are only in it for themselves.

this series from the new york times falls into the former category. and this profile of stefanie rinza? well, this is true love. her words mirror precisely how i feel. about dogs. about animals. about what's important.