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Author: ADA

  • I Can See Myself In That Chicken (Inside A Small Box)

    For me, “The Writer” is a simple case of transference: I can see myself in that chicken. There I am, at the writer’s desk, poised at the typewriter, surrounded by a wallpaper of swirling words. “Cluck-cluck!” I hear myself say, “I am that chicken.” And so dear reader, despite the proverbial “chicken” that I am…

  • Napa Wash

    Most often I am inspired by nature, whether it be visually as an artist, or verbally as a writer. Last summer, with simple watercolors and ink, before the treacherous fire episodes scourged the Napa Valley and its surrounds, with feeble brushes and watered down cakes of paint I painted abstractions of the nearby Mayacamas Mountains…

  • Sexy Knife

    The Miyabi Kaizen 5000 DP, 34183-163 is my new favorite dinner date. Even these obsequious i.d. numbers are sexy to me now. While this 6” chef’s knife’s sliding, gliding micro carbonate steel blade and sleek handle has been sitting quietly in its encased bed for months waiting for the chef de la maison to withdraw…