This week, I opened a novel with an interesting premise: a black family moves to a research institute housed in a grand old mansion, in exchange for teaching sign language to a chimpanzee. Can such a thing be done? Would you read on to find out? Well, I would. The chimp was volatile. Offer a banana and he might chuck it back at you, [...]
Cumin photo credit: Photo credit: Iqbal Osman1 via Visualhunt / CC BY I’m nuts for hummus right now. It even gets me to eat my vegetables. Nothing better than some yummy garlic and lemon to make the baby carrots go down. My hummus habit may bankrupt me. So I tried to make it [...]
Suppose I had not bought this house. After all, I tried pretty hard to buy one in the town down the road. We lived there once upon a time, and I still swim in a warm bath of memories every time I slip down there. I remember how I felt sitting at this stoplight. I remember sunlight at this exact angle as I drove down [...]
