There’s a lot going on in my life lately, but nothing that is easily distilled down into a touching or remarkable blog entry.  I’m actually feeling kind of parched right now, without the ability to fertilize an idea into bloom.  I’ve spend the last three plus months writing more than I’ve ever done before and […]

The next episode of Fork You, Chicken Soup for the Whole, is up and available for viewing.  Remind me not to wear my glasses next time we film, because I can’t seem to stop pushing them up my nose, and that just doesn’t seem very sanitary.

When I was eight years old, smack in the middle of the third grade, my family moved from Eagle Rock, CA (just next door to Pasadena) to Portland, OR.  My parents decided to move in the middle of the year in part because my mom read somewhere that kids who transition into new schools in […]

I woke up at 3:30 am last night, with the knowledge that I was about to throw up and that I needed to get to the bathroom in the next 20 seconds.  It happened again the next hour and once more at 5:30 am.  I wondered briefly at that point if this flu was going […]

When I have a window seat, and I can do it without being too obnoxious, I like to take pictures from airplanes. Leaving Portland, I frequently do it in the hopes that I will snatch a shot of Mount Hood like this one.
Friday morning the clouds were riding thick and high, so the mountains […]

Unpacking my suitcase this morning, I realized that I brought bits of animal fur from the Portland menagerie across the country with me.  The dog’s course white hairs were woven into the fleece of the cheap neck pillow I bought at the Newark airport on the way out to Portland last week.  Silky black whisps […]

I pulled into Philly around 5:30 this evening and struggled the five blocks from 30th Street Station to home, with my nearly 70 pound suitcase in tow. I probably should have made my life easier and taken a cab, but for some reason, I don’t always make the simpler choices.
It’s nice to be home […]

My family moved to Portland in the spring of 1988, and that fall was the first time we were on our own for Thanksgiving. In the years before we had always gone to my grandma Bunny’s house in Woodland Hills, CA and gathered around her big table with the rest of the extended Los […]

The turkey is rinsed, defrosted and ready to be stuffed. A big bowl of roasted sweet potato puree with vanilla bean and orange zest is ready to be reheated (I had a moment of panic when it appeared that I had killed my mom’s Vitamix in the process of pureeing. Thankfully, I had […]

The next installment in the Fork You franchise (if we can call it such a thing) is up!  This is where Scott and I make the base for Thanksgiving gravy in my kitchen.  If you’re looking for written instructions, check out this post that I put together last year when I made gravy for a […]