Archive - The Soloist

Not a bibliography

Mar 19, 2022

January 2022

How I learned to write.

Jan 31, 2022

December 2021

In praise of the round dining table.

Dec 29, 2021

The Power of Eating Alone in Public

Dec 18, 2021

Before I read Lauren Collin’s excellent profile of Alison Roman in the Dec 20th New Yorker (“Kitchen Confessional”), I had not paid much attention to…

Dec 18, 2021

Working with what I have.

Dec 16, 2021

Cooking for oneself

Dec 10, 2021

Dec 4, 2021

November 2021

I have no idea where I was or what I was doing when Elvis died. He did not mean much to me. Nor did his music. In contrast, my location when the news…

Nov 27, 2021

A look back at the 2018 retrospective exhibit at UC Davis's Manetti-Shrem Museum.

Nov 27, 2021

When Harry wed Meghan.

Nov 27, 2021

Wherein Paul Simon reminds me of something my mother said.

Nov 27, 2021

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