“I adjusted the recipe for the ingredients I had (pasilla chilies and Kalamata olives) in place of the ingredients I didn’t (sweet peppers, capers).”
Author Archives: Mary
One Hundred Twenty-One Days
“One Hundred Twenty-One Days”: a fairy tale, Africa, Paris, Strasbourg. Lists of papers in an archive, lists written in a notebook preserved for a future researcher to find, registries of visitors to academic institutions in France, scene re-created, imagined from a photograph, excerpts from a diary or two. Marriage announcements, birth announcements, death announcements. People, mostly […]
Christmas Eve 2014: No Pictures, Please
Fez, Morocco…Christmas Eve. I couldn’t, didn’t take a picture, though my hand itched for the camera. All I have is mental images, translated here: “And, this,” says Ali, the city guide, “is the caravanserai (CAR-uh-van-sir-I).” He continues, “The farmers stay here when they come to sell in the Medina.” A donkey wreathed in a rope […]