One Year Anniversary of From Scratch

Fate and coincidence had already conspired to change the course of my life. But for this one moment frozen in time, I was only aware of the spring Italian light filtering onto my shoulder and keeping my eyes open to the camera.

I went back to this picture many times while writing From Scratch. I tried to fill in the details just out of frame (the furniture in the room; what was cooking on the stove; sounds from the street below). I tried to pull fragments of memory forward, languish in them or crack the mystery of how life unfolds. When I look at this picture now, I see someone at the beginning of a beautiful journey. I know she will take two big leaps: the one that led me to Italy and the one that led me to write the story as I remembered. From Scratch turns one today. So you can bet I’m gonna make sure the girl in the picture gets cake and Prosecco.

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