Best of my life 2011

Best of my life 2011 (originally posted at Jigsaw Underground on 12.29.11.)


café de flore

Paris with Vail ladies
Dinner at Frenchie, Paris
Inside Job wins the Oscar
Grandma's 90th birthday, Napa
Dinner at Bazaar, LA
Teaching classes for Cocinar Para Su Saludhttp://www.cookforyourlife.org/
Moving to our new home
Riding my bike to Ft. Tilden Beach
Yoga at Maya and Shambhala
Classes at Studio Maya, Brooklyn

Tybee Island family beach trip

Comet Gain at the Scala, London
Arroz Negre at Barceloneta and Arnau's birthday show 11.11.11
Puerto Rico holiday
Hot Snakes, Wild Flag, No Age and more at ATP, Minehead
Christmas tamales with Miriam

crazy nostalgia

I'm a super sappy and nostalgic person. My dreams are often images of my youth. Sledding runs, horseback rides, sometimes sadness. I don't remember exactly when we moved to Galesville, MD but I remember when we moved (I was 10) and a lot of the time in between. I think a lot about our street, "main st." ,and our house, and the AME church across the street, and riding bikes, getting chased by a dog, making a pickle olive and mustard sandwich on whole wheat, riding my bike to the playground, eating one bite and wondering what the hell I was thinking. Smells and tastes and senses abound in my memories. I learned to pick crabs when I was 5 or 6 and I drank a lot of Shirley Temples with old fashioned set ups (maraschino cherries and an orange slice.) Galesville was very segregated, and I learned about racism and assumptions and how to be bad from a very young age. I was lucky enough to unlearn things too. For that I'm grateful to people who confront ignorance in kids. You can learn lessons and remember them.

For whatever reason, I never had a chance to go back to Galesville until today. It's pretty much the same, people store their boats, go to church, go to school and live. And they eat a lot of crabs. I had no interest in resisting the urge to eat a crab cake so today after 20 years of being a vegetarian I ate shellfish on purpose. It was delicious.