was it too much fat or the flu

I had dinner at what is generally recognized as a good restaurant in San Francisco–I enthusiastically ordered the marrow as an appetizer. Mrmmm. Marrow.
When asked to explain what marrow tastes like, or if it’s highly fatty (”What does it taste like,” my friend asked, adding quickly, “I don’t want to EAT it–I just [...]

winter there, spring here

The snow fell heavily–at times I looked out the window to a landscape that looked like it was draped in fog, but I knew it was just millions of snowflakes. If I looked closely, I would see the snowflakes falling from the sky, sometimes sideways in a gust of wind, but mostly in a [...]