Spirit – the food poet

IACP Pain Points Panel: Tech Tools for Today’s Food Pro

IACP Pain Points Panel: Tech Tools for Today’s Food Pro Maggie, Emma, Stella and I are sharing our favorite apps with you. The links below are the tools we use (or have heard about) that make our jobs easier, more organized, and efficient. Do you have an app you love? Or, have you found a… Continue reading IACP Pain Points Panel: Tech Tools for Today’s Food Pro

A Tribute to Charlie Trotter

It happens like this: We do not see the thing for what it is until it is no more. It can happen so quickly: News of another person’s death distills the color and lines of the small band of people who surround your life, bringing their clarity into focus. Perhaps you pull them closer to… Continue reading A Tribute to Charlie Trotter

Memoriam

May eighth, you come without notice. After three years, you would think I would be mindful of your coming and yet you come and you take. A week ago, I greeted May, all bustle and business until it stopped me and put me in my place- the clock is ticking. You will soon be here… Continue reading Memoriam

Hunger in America: Have You Ever Gone Hungry?

Did you know that 16 million children live in households that struggle to put food on the table? Put another way, that’s 1 in 5 kids. It’s absurd isn’t it? The number confounds with its profundity. It feels so big as to be out of reach. It requires a groundswell of people involved to make… Continue reading Hunger in America: Have You Ever Gone Hungry?

Good Friday Poetry: Myopia

I’ve been thinking about death for the past few weeks. Lest you think this is stemming from some sort of morbidity on my part, it’s been a dose of digging deep into the passage of John 19 for guidance in writing a poem I read aloud today at a Good Friday service. Culturally speaking, Good… Continue reading Good Friday Poetry: Myopia

Sally’s Pumpkin Bread and #HatDay

Today: Sally’s first anniversary. Tuesday: Tio Z’s second anniversary. Sunday: a friend’s grandfather’s passing. This week is mired in remembrances of lives well lived and yet also, death pocking the days. It’s a curious thing trying to accept our own mortality, isn’t it? It’s an incredible thing to think of death as a gift, which… Continue reading Sally’s Pumpkin Bread and #HatDay

A Day of Remembrance

Down but not out

Money wins. Election day finally pulled into the station yesterday. A campaign of over $45 million dollars was funneled into confusing consumers on the issue of what mandating food labeling of genetically modified foods actually involved. And the voters have spoken. The thing is, most decisions in life, for adults, come down to money, right?… Continue reading Down but not out

Memorial

May his memory be a blessing. In my heart, a yahrzeit candle burns, two years later. You go to bury the dead. You put something dead into a still living soil. And what if you planted something real and still waiting for its blooming- What if you look for a way to keep the memorial… Continue reading Memorial