“There is a communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk.” ~ MFK Fisher I met Paul Draper through his wine. It was my 40th birthday, Chez Panisse, and the…
“tell me what you eat and i will tell you what you are.” – brillat-severin food ~ Sometimes an after-thought, many times an obsession, but always a consideration. My relationship to food has continually been one of…
Pixar is our backyard… Located in Emeryville, California, it is literally less than ten blocks away from where we live in West End Commons in West Oakland. I used to think of this more abstractly as…
Ashley McKinley / an email from june 19th, 2009… recollections ~ “I get here first. Unlock the door, re-lock it behind me, turn on the lights, and then head straight to the sewing machine. I have…
4th Street Berkeley ~ from the archives, june 2009… a photo shoot with my assistants Racheal Matthews and Ashley Mckinley, photographed by Heike Liss, with hair and make-up by Rebecca Beardsley, who also works a block…
“Tell me and I forget teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.” ~ Benjamin Franklin I came to Berkeley from London for the doctoral program in Cultural Anthropology which after a semester, was doubled up…
“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” ~ Soren Kierkegaard FaceBook post, from December 23rd, 2012 ~ “On the occasion of my mom’s 67th birthday, I brought together some of the…
