The shawl on the chair
A crocheted shawl, a pair of reading glasses and what they told me about my grandmother’s last winter.
November 4, 2026 · 6 min
Apricot jam from a torn page
A recipe card with half its words missing, and how I worked out the rest from taste.
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Tomatoes from a walled garden
The garden my family kept for four generations, and the rows I still remember by name.