Let nothing human be foreign to me

'Blue Plate Special' is the autobiography of my first half-century of life, with food as the subject.

My blog is a celebration of the unexpected, settled, happy life I find myself living in Portland, Maine, at the ripe old age of fifty with someone I deeply love and am very happy with. That's part of why I started the blog.

My 50th birthday approaching felt like a big milestone to me. I've lived half a century. If I write about food and use my life as a fulcrum to move the story along, maybe I've lived long enough to fashion a narrative that has a happy ending.

No matter how far you travel across the world, you will still end up your life in your final destination.

Through each crisis in my life, with acceptance and hope, in a single defining moment, I finally gained the courage to do things differently.