Food for all five senses
Hello from Palm Springs! I came out early this year, on account of the wondrous occasion of overlapping judeochristian holidays and the not so wondrous occasion of a breakup. As many of you remember, the Palm Springs New Years holiday has been a regular celebration since 2011, and it’s become one of my favorite traditions […]
A couple years ago, I got a call from my friend Heather. She wanted me to meet her friend Amanda Chantal Bacon—she thought we might be able to work together somehow, or just find a kind of kindred spirit in one another that would be generative to us both. Heather told me that Amanda and […]
This post was created in partnership with Rescue. All opinions are my own. Bonne Bell lip gloss. A tattered copy of Neruda’s The Captain’s Verses. Licorice pastilles. Matte red lipstick. These were all purse standbys for me at one moment or another throughout my life. But even the most addictive of them (the Bonne Bell and […]
Molly and I met at camp. Wait, did I say camp? I meant the internet. Actually, we met for the first time via our mutual bestie Alana, over brunch in LA. But here’s the thing: Brunch isn’t very much like camp, and so while we bonded immediately, it wasn’t until later, when we both found ourselves on […]
This post was created in partnership with Earth Balance. All opinions are my own. Readjusting to home is strange. In Italy, I walked. I walked miles and miles every day—without even realizing, I’d find myself clocking 11 or 12 miles on my daily explorations, rapt as I was by every corner, every cobblestone, every leaf […]
Good morning, sweet ones. I stopped and started this post several times, because each time I began, I found myself writing something darker than the time before. My heart has been heavy. Heavy with Nice. Heavy with the United States. Heavy with Turkey. Heavy. One day I let myself sink deep into it, curl down […]
When I began to write, it was out of fear. I thought I might forget, or pretend to forget, or pretend to pretend, or grow up. —Miranda July, “No one belongs here more than you.“— I started to dread getting in the car. I knew revving the engine meant turning on the radio, and turning […]
Hi there. I’m Lily. I’m 35 years old. Since I’m about to download a whole boatload of info about how I live into your mindspace, I thought you might like to know a little more about me than, say, what you might glean from the average green juice recipe on K&C. Ready? Set? Here goes! […]
It was the first time in thirty two years I’d landed on Maui and would not go directly home. I would not see one of my parents’ faces beaming up at me from the open air staircase leading down to the balmy atrium of a baggage claim. I would not ride straight away up to […]
I cry on planes. Every time I leave a place that has changed me. When I forgot my laptop at the security checkpoint of LAX. Over completely non-emotional reruns of CHOPPED. When I start regurgitating my litany of past loves via poetry that need not be written. And, yes, whenever I consider the liminal, unterritoried […]
I don’t often take too deep of a dive into the nitty gritty of how I eat, and because I eat very similarly to what I share on the blog, people usually assume I’m vegetarian—which I’m not. Though I eat very little meat, I’ve embraced the title of omnivore. Carnivorous tendencies don’t come naturally to […]
My sweet friends. Since we’re still basking in the afterglow of The Modern Girl’s Guide to Being an All Natural Bad-Ass (I loved reading all your questions and comments! giving me life—keep ‘em coming!), I wanted to share with you a very TMGGTBAANBA kind of breakfast. It also happens to be what I’ve eaten every morning for […]