I’ll get a new post up later tonight, possibly about artichokes or the dream I had last night in which I was a phone-in contestant on the NPR comedy/talk show, “What Do You Know?” In the meantime, for some of the newcomers, a few of my favorite posts.
A Family Secret
Rosemary
Pinch Pie
Break up pain, all [...]

To all of you who voted in the Philly Future Featured Blog Poll, a big thank you! As of right now I am the tentative winner, but final results have not been posted.
A few things I learned through this process:
My ability to stay on good terms with ex-boyfriends, former babysitting charges (and their mothers), [...]

40 years ago this week, my grandfather Phil, my mother’s father, died of a massive heart attack. He was 57 years old. He had been a smoker since childhood, having grown up poor on the streets of Fishtown in the early years of the 20th century. He left behind a wife, three [...]

I was never on the Homecoming or Prom Court, I wasn’t elected May Fete Queen (although I have to admit, I was on the court that time) or Rose Princess. But today, I have another chance at being Philly Future’s featured blog. The weekend’s poll to determine the next featured blog resulted in [...]

My friend Anna is getting married next month, after years of swearing up and down that she was never, ever going to get hitched. Her first date with her fiancee lasted three days, and their second spanned the length of a work week. After that, he just moved in.
For this untraditional bride, nothing [...]

Today I did a assortment of things that brought me happiness, both in the doing of the individual tasks and in the wholeness of their collective.
I lay in bed until ten, stretching my body to take up all the space the bed had to offer. I made french toast, mixing the eggs and milk [...]

So I discovered a little while ago that I’ve been nominated to be Philly Future’s featured blog. Voting to select the next featured blog is open until Sunday afternoon. I feel a little funny telling people to vote for me, and yet, not quite funny enough to not to it. So go [...]

My sister was born on February 3rd, 1982. Several weeks before she was born, my two and a half year old self suggested to my very pregnant mom that we paint the baby’s room black, despite the fact that there was no baby’s room, just the room that I would share with the impending [...]

It’s Friday again, which means it’s time for another Random Friday Ten. The rules are simple, set your iPod or other electronic music devise to shuffle and see what shows up. No omissions, deletions or exceptions allowed.
1. Stay Loose, Belle and Sebastian (Dear Catastrophe Waitress)
2. The Kind of Bedside Manor, Barenaked [...]

I got home from work tonight a little before six. I got onto the elevator and pushed my floor. It stopped on the 6th floor, and a man got on. I’d seen him around the building on prior occasions. He looked at the button panel, and seeing that the 20th floor [...]