Bread. I’ve had a complicated relationship with it all my life, but it is my go-to comfort food. When I was a child, my mom didn’t bake often, but she made the most incredible buns. On bake days, the house burst with the heady fragrance of fresh bread and cinnamon buns. In the nineties, during …

Soon, I’ll be moving my newsletter to a new platform – Substack. Nothing will change for you, except the layout will look a little different. Substack encourages writers to give their newsletter a title. I’ve picked “Creative Compost,” which sort of sums up my topics – a bit of this and that.  Back in 2019, …