Naomi Pomeroy

It's another PIE POP UP. I'll be slinging slices in person SAT & SUN- starting at NOON- and I'll be nestled right along side bestie biz partner - who will be there to lovingly drop the FLAVOR OF YOUR CHOICE of our brand new flavors along side --

Make it an A'LA MODE WEEKEND- with two choices of Pie (Banana Cream or Chocolate Peanut Butter Caramel S'mores).

Featuring suggested accompaniment of : PASSIONFRUIT/ TRIPLE GINGER/ or MALTED CHOCOLATE

See you this weekend - ps. Pie's usually sell out fast - no whole pies only slices ... pie a l'mode for brunch is the PLAN. COLIBRI's got amazing espresso and FLORAL DELIGHTS as well!!

Mika Paredes. Magical human, divine spirt. FOURTY YEARS OLD TODAY . My other 1/2 1/2. We've walked a long path together from the early days of clarklewis, to dinners in my backyard, to the kitchen & dining room at Beast (building it together from the ground up). To "Best New Chef" in 2009, (which any real chef knows is just the measure of your support team) on to a Beard Award (same- doesn't belong to the chef, belongs to the crew) and an entirely new business together started last June. We've lived together, worked together, laughed (a LOT) danced a lot, sang together, cried together. It's been a long journey of 20 years together and today marks her 40th birthday. Hard to imagine what my life would be without her. Confident that this particular partnership was written in the stars. Congrats to Mika, and to our 20 years too, thank you universe for keeping us together for all this time, today,
tomorrow and for as long as you give us.

How it started vs. How it's going. HAPPY SECOND BIRTHDAY to our sweet sweet son Leroy. What a GOOOD BOY!! 💋💋

I was 15 when I first heard Sinead O'Connor. Her debut album The Lion and The Cobra was so fiery, full of life, death, love, venom, pain and joy. It couldn't have spoken more resonantly to me. Her voice, her words, her spirit pierced my soul and made me feel seen in a way that nothing else could. And then she did it again. She made another album that BROKE ME WIDE OPEN. Not only was her voice truly powerful, her words cut through to the TRUTH-- she hid nothing. The raw vulnerability she gifted us all helped me through those years of my life, and shaped who I became as an adult. Still today as write this I can hear in my own mind with 100% clarity her voice in my head. She made me aware of politics I didn't know about as a small town girl from a white Oregon town - "England's not the mythical land of madame George and roses, it's the home of police who kill black boys on mopeds, and I love my boy, and that's why we're leaving, I don't want him to be aware that there's any such thing as grieving". The song 3 babies I'm pretty sure was about a few abortions she had had, at least that's what it meant to me, and I listened to it on repeat when I also made that same difficult choice. Still do, and I think about my 3 babies all the time, most deeply when I hear that song, and I return to it to remind myself of my own humanity. The tonal anger in "Last day of our acquaintance" was played a million times on repeat during a particularly unpleasant time in a relationship I desperately wanted to leave but didn't know how to. And lastly - when my best friend died last year, one of the first things I did when I got home to our stereo was to dig for SINEAD, turn the volume LOUD and play this song alone in the house... sobbing and wailing :
I am stretched on your grave
And I'll lie here forever
If you hands were in mine
I'd be sure they would not sever
My apple tree, my brightness
It's time we were together
For I smell of the Earth
And I'm worn by the weather".
Rest in power Sinead. You gifted so many in a way you probably never could have fathomed. We thank you. We owe you. We will work to repay you by continuing to speak our truths, loud- for all to hear.