A New Lease

Car parts ended up all over the house. A windshield from a 924 Porsche juts over the plate-glass storefront door, bouncing light onto the walkway. Volvo hatchbacks brace a stair railing. Red, yellow and green road signs tile a bathroom wall. The gas-guzzling...

The Memory of Plants

Some of Linda Reynolds’ earliest memories are stored not in the pages of a photo album, but in the fuzzy leaves of an African violet.  “When I was growing up, we often went to Grandma Michael’s house for Sunday dinner. Afterwards she would take me...

The Aisle Less Travelled

Published in the San Francisco Bride magazine YOUR WEDDING setting is like a stage to play out one of life’s biggest dramas. What tone do you want to set for the next chapter of your journey together? Silly or serene, romantic or rowdy, innocent or imaginative?  The...

Perchance to Dine in Wine Country

Published in the October 2002 issue of Alaska Airlines Magazine THOUGH FOLKS here will try to tell you that fermented grapes are a food group, one cannot live on wine alone, even in California’s Wine Country. And who would want to? Tucked between the vineyards...

Red Fish, Green Fish

Published in Natural Home, Nov./Dec. 2002 To eat or not to eat? It’s not easy making your way through the tangled nets of sustainable seafood choices — but a host of celebrity chefs want to help. A FEW YEARS AGO, New York chef Peter Hoffman came across a...