My calendar has been lying on my desk all morning, open (by some unrelated scheduling) to the week of my birthday. With one of my classically uncoordinated moves, I reached for my spoon, scooped up a mound of oatmeal from the bowl also sitting on my desk and then inadvertently dumped the entire spoonful [...]

I went to a friend’s departmental goodbye party this afternoon. She was one of the first people I met when I moved to Philly, and now, after four years, she’s leaving for better things and exciting opportunities. This was the first of what I assume will be many send off events I’ll attend [...]

I left work early today. I don’t often do things like that, mostly because I have a boss who doesn’t let me, but also because I start to finally get productive right around 3 pm and so need to harness that energy. Today, however, my boss was out of the office, I wasn’t [...]

Another stage on the road to adulthood…
Just about once a week I find myself apologizing to my mother for the obnoxious acts I performed while growing up. Today’s apology was issued when my mom reminded me about a fit I threw at the ripe age of 19. My parents had invited me to [...]

I can’t tell you at what age I had my first cup of coffee, but I can tell you that I was young. My parents have always been coffee drinkers, establishing the smell of brewing coffee as something deeply linked to mornings (especially weekend ones). I could have told you how they liked [...]

It’s Friday and I’m still not entirely sure what happened to Monday. One of the happy things that Friday brings with it is the chance to post a Random Friday Ten. You know the rules, but for the sake of clarity, here they are. Set your pod or other, admittedly inferior, digital [...]

I’m feeling neither creative or particularly interesting these days. I’ve been going through a period where I’ve needed a lot of sleep, and haven’t wanted to do much. A friend asked me recently if I thought I was depressed, and I thought about it for a minute before I responded that I’m neither [...]

A large, invisible hand is currently locked down on the right side of my skull. Light hurts my eyes, and the movie my roommate is watching is causing my head to implode over and over again. The only immediate future I can envision right now involves a dark room, several more ibuprofen and [...]

Four years ago today my grandmother died. She had spent the better part of two weeks in the hospital, but the end came more suddenly than I was prepared for. Looking back on it, I should have been ready for her to slip away that morning, but I wasn’t. No family members [...]

I walked up to the counter at Sue’s Produce Sunday afternoon and managed to catch the tail end of a conversation that caught my attention. A young woman with a vaguely British accent was explaining the virtues of the fruit she was buying to the woman behind her in line. She explained that [...]