The Strawberry Field

When I was little we’d go to Disneyland once, maybe twice a year. Living a few miles from The Happiest Place on Earth is something most will never know — fireworks from the park were visible during summer nights, and the Mark Twain riverboat’s whistle could be heard during the quieter parts of the day, usually around dusk […]

The Apple and the Wine

One of the great things about working late — for me, anyway — is that it takes the guesswork out of dinner. What do I turn to? Fast food. The original fast food, as my mom likes to say: fruit. Tonight it was an apple. It was well beyond dinnertime, so anything probably would’ve tasted […]

Broccoli-land

While I was sitting in a meeting yesterday, 15 floors above the street below, I looked out across the traffic and surrounding neighborhoods. The trees which dotted the landscape looked like a forest of broccoli florets and, at that second, I realized how ravenous I was. I’m on day two of Operation: Fair-Weather Vegan — […]