A few weeks ago, I attended an American Folklife Center symposium at the Library of Congress, celebrating the release of the new book Ola...

I've been paying annual visits to my friends Nathan and Clara and their little ones on their farm in Brooklin, Maine since 2008. B...

I was first introduced to the wonderful Ronni Lundy in 2010, when she asked my friend Lora and me to contribute a piece on Pi(e) Day ...

1st slice.  I love making homemade bagels and Peter Reinhart's recipe via Smitten Kitchen has never failed me. I generally stick to t...

I'm pretty much a fan of anything that tastes like it could be old-timey medicine. The more herbal, botanical, and tonic-like, the b...

Blueberry pie has long had a place on 4th of July menus. It's an American classic, for one, particularly in the North. A recipe app...

It's been hard to find the time to blog lately. That's not a complaint, necessarily, just the way it is, with long full-time ho...

I'm now out of the woods and catching up on posts and pretty much everything else in my (digital) life. I have a number of film shot...