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A Long Island Farewell
It’s not every day Jack moves to Madison to start his next chapter as a freshman Badger and such a momentous occasion begged for a stellar party. Shrimp boils are a Dougherty family favorite and have...
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Long Island Corn Dogs
What’s better than a hot dog from the O’Dovero’s? An O’Dovero hot dog dipped in batter, fried in a cast iron skillet and eaten on Long Island. I’m a picky corn dog connoisseur (if there is such a...
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Lost Creek Falls With M & M
“There are these two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says “Morning, boys. How’s the water?” And the two young fish swim on...
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Spring Camp Falls
There are, it seems, two muses: the Muse of Inspiration, who gives us inarticulate visions and desires, and the Muse of Realization, who returns again and again to say “It is yet more difficult than...
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Our Table
Perhaps the World Ends Here The world begins at a kitchen table. No matter what, we must eat to live. The gifts of earth are brought and prepared, set on the table so it has been since creation, and...
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Here Comes The Sun
Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth. Henry David Thoreau Our last beach day of 2013 on September...
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Christmas Magic
Remembering that It Happened Once Remembering that it happened once, We cannot turn away the thought, As we go out, cold, to our barns Toward the long night’s end, that we Ourselves are living in the...
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The Last & The First
2013 went out with a bonfire, a seriously kick-ass batch of Texas Red (recipe here), my last magnum of 2011 Lapierre Morgon, homemade corn dogs, good cheese and good people. 2013 was a stern...
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Home
It just may be that the most radical act we can commit is to stay home. What does that mean to finally commit to a place, to a people, to a community? It doesn’t mean it’s easy, but it does mean you...
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And Then There Were Three
I Ask Percy How I Should Live My Life Love, love, love, says Percy. And hurry as fast as you can along the shining beach, or the rubble, or the dust. Then, go to sleep. Give up your body heat, your...
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