We spent the day today tramping around a coffee plantation called Finca Niagara. The name seems to come from the beautiful waterfalls that drain the cloud-covered mountains, along the escarpments of which the coffee plants somehow hang on. The coffee is in prime picking condition right now. Some workers we ran into, taking a break [...]
Last weekend a crew from San Francisco State University was on our block shooting a short film by a student named Drew Crocker. It had an angel, Jesus, and assorted pratfalls. I didn’t really get the premise, but we’ll see the finished work soon enough and all will be explained.
On my first trip to Chennai, I tried on a sari at Rasi’s, the big silk emporium in the Mylapore neighborhood. I was impressed with its elegance and ease of use, not to mention the glorious fabric, something I’d never had much of an eye for until then. Kevin held onto the picture for months, [...]
We thought we were being pretty organized, what with getting Lilly’s lion costume way back in September and all. Of course, the day before Halloween we found out she had grown out of it already. So Carolyn led a pre-Halloween craft marathon, and Lilly came out as a beautiful fairy princess with a glittering tin [...]
I have finally found a self-improvement, life-enhancement program I can get behind.