winter love

winter love

  there is a privacy about it which no other season gives you…. in spring, summer and fall people sort of have an open season on each other; only in the winter, in the country, can you have longer, quiet stretches when you can savor belonging to yourself....
a croissant pudding

a croissant pudding

no scented candles needed for this nest. the house still lingers from my weekend baking bonanza. i share with you my caramel-croissant pudding: it starts with croissants. {didn’t go fancy-pants on the croissant maker-a mexican market in altadena} i substituted...
happy weekend

happy weekend

good morning m’dears. i’m still trying to soak warm back into my cells. yesterday, i was shooting a short film that had me clad scantily in a 43 degree cemetery for most of the day. at one point my earlobes started to shiver, and i started to envy those...

winter has come early. she seems to have taken my voice. her thick, loud silence serenading me with an intoxicating harmony. it charms me like a snake; in my basket of fluffy down. the luxury of stillness no longer a longing.     image Similar...
i’m over here

i’m over here

i’ve been a bit under the water weather. holiday cheer can make katie a dull girl. i wax and wane. one minute i’m vomiting holly and tinsel on every eave and tabletop, a day later i’m stomping my boots in fury at being honked at for letting a...