A Saturday Moment
I was in the fish store today picking up some smoked salmon, not at all aware that I was in any kind of mood at all–good or bad–when a man came in with a thick paperback, textbook size, under one arm. I was momentarily charmed by the idea of this guy doing his chores holding a book that big, and nothing else. Was he a teacher? Mystery solved when I went to pay and there he was, reading out loud from what turned out to be a Spanish cookbook. He was buying the ingredients for a seafood paella. “Let’s see,” he was saying. “Two pounds of shrimp, and….”
I walked out, grinning. Suddenly I was happy. Something about that man, bringing his cook book to the fish store, filled me with joy. I walked toward the vegetable store, wondering who’d I see there.
alexandra alger 