Olga, Svetlana and Nikita- happy in their gulag

“These are the best eggs I’ve ever tasted,” my visiting friend said. “Yeah, and look at the color,” I held up the hard boiled yolk, a vivid orange marked by toothmarks (mine). It could be that hunger is the best seasoning; we were at the end of a strenuous hike and...

A Better Rat Trap

We have rats. They came to my bumper crop of lilikoi (passion fruit) this summer from wherever rats come from—other  people’s houses, the sugarcane fields, drawn by the music of  the Rat Fairy, multiplying like Tribbles. The only good thing about this infestation is...

Cooking- or lack thereof

(Names and details confused to befuddle anyone trying to figure out who's in this story) Anna is a  little woman with an amazing mind who possesses two master’s degrees and speaks three languages. She talks rapidly, like her thoughts leave her tongue behind. She and...

My own funky Giverny

I woke up early today. The light was grey pearl outside my window as I ghosted over to the coffeepot and heated up a cup of yesterday’s coffee in the microwave. Don’t ask me why I do this. I don’t like stale coffee, but I seem to practice strange small economies, like...

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