Three nights ago, in the space between awareness and sleep, I found myself designing a recipe.  I don’t feel like it came from me so much as I plucked it from the misty shared creative space to which we all have access.  Anyway, what I imagined was a white bean and ground turkey chili, but [...]

Sun is pouring into my living room and the plants seem to be reaching out to capture as much of it as they can.  The money plant has a spray of leaves that is pressed up against the glass, like a dog’s nose up against a sliding glass door.
The rules of Random Friday are simple.  [...]

Monday afternoon I stood at my dining room table, flipping through a splayed out copy of the New York Times, when an obituary caught my eye and made me lean in to better read it. It reported that a ninety-eight year old woman named Ernestine Gilbreth Carey had died. My heart squeezed in [...]

This afternoon I walked into the Wawa at the corner of 20th and Market to grab a sandwich and a pint of coffee milk before heading home and burying myself in school work. As I made my way back to the dairy case, I noticed a elderly woman slowly walking with a 20 ounce [...]

On election day in 1988, I was sitting in my fourth grade classroom focused on a math worksheet, when I heard clicking noises come down the hallway. I looked and saw my mom walking down the hallway with our dog Toasty on a leash. She had come to take me out of class [...]

Last night, my parents had an unusually exciting Sunday evening.  They were watching TV in separate rooms, my dad on the couch in the family room and my mom on floor in the living room (so that she can adjust the volume with her toe on the remoteless set that lives in there) when the [...]

I’m finally feeling better, an event for which I am very grateful. I forget how unfun being sick is, especially during times when you are responsible for getting things done regardless of how you feel. It almost makes me miss the times when I was working and had sick days, and could watch [...]

I haven’t left my apartment today. I’ve gone from bed to the couch and back to bed again. I’ve consumed nearly a gallon of tea and came to the conclusion that coffee doesn’t taste very good when you can’t smell it. Riding a burst of energy I had at about 6 pm, [...]

It’s Friday, albeit late afternoon, but still Friday all the same and so I’m still within the time period to get a Random Friday set up.  You know the rules, but for the newcomers, I’ll repeat.  Set your iPod or other digital music devise to shuffle/random and report back the first ten songs it spits [...]

So, until now, I’ve been completely delinquent in mentioning that I’m participating in NaBloPoMo this month. An alternative to NaNoWriMo, it is a commitment to update your blog with a post of some substance once a day for the month of November. The project is one of the many brainchildren of Eden [...]