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Comfort food

Chickpeas & dill in a bowl from Yria Paros. Meals like this make all my senses feel nourished.
Ed. for Kate - I call this “Fake revithia” because I use canned chickpeas instead of soaking them and cooking them myself.
1 can chickpeas/garbanzo beans (do not drain)
2 T olive oil
1tsp. each dill, oregano, [...]

Bare, but bright. I used a trick from Martha Stewart and juxtaposed three nearly matched shades of white for a sort of pearlescent, light-bending effect. This color was originally intended for the bathroom, but I made a mistake when I picked out the color for this nook, and it has been garish orange for most [...]

Last Friday night as the sun went down, I raided the candle cupboard (yes, my mother had so many candles that an entire cupboard of the four cupboards available for storage is wholly devoted to Things for Burning) and lined the deck with lit candles. A year ago, we’d had the candles burning for days.

It [...]

Yield

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These wild strawberries are taking over the front flower bed. If you hike a little ways up the creek, you can find scads of them. This is what I rescued before the birds found them.

Utopian Illusions

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The Life magazine advertisement that I found when I was in middle school, that later became the inspiration for the name Utopian.net.

Did you ever have one of those decisions where the pros and cons were so evenly divided that you waffled one way or another forever, hoping that some external force or sign would help you decide?
Yeah. I’ve decided to withdraw from my graduate program and not travel to Austria. It is one of those decisions [...]