Tonight I made this recipe for red-wine spaghetti with broccoli that I found at Epicurious.com. You actually boil the pasta in the red-wine. It was very good and quite light. I also made the salad dressing from this salad, and liked it quite a bit.

If you are curious about how Portrait of Ari started, I can tell you the whole sordid story. I started writing a novel when I was in highschool, and things being what they were, it took me ten years or so to finish the thing. The plot is flawed beyond repair, and believe me, I tried. It’s hard to look at that many words and know that you have to throw them out.

But there were parts of the story that I thought still worked, and there were characters that I loved. Continue reading The original scene of Portrait of Ari