I was so happy my friend thought the soup was pretty enough to photograph! This is my Silver Palate Cherry Soup. Organic blueberries, organic cherries. Antioxidant brew.

I made it for a friend, Pea, who is graduating from Creative Writing School. What was the best thing for her? New friends. The seventy plus year old professor from the South, the kid from Kentucky who is in love with Sylvia Plath. Knowing these other writers, that’s what she loved.

And how I love my soup.