Last night, as I hugged my sister goodbye at the airport, she leaned back, looked into my eyes and said, “I love you, you make me crazy.”  I hugged her back into me and said, “Right back at ya.”
I’m back in Philly again, after a night flight that I mostly slept through.  My apartment looked […]

It’s the day after Christmas and I’m snuggled down in bed, enjoying my parents’ wifi signal, the blustery weather and the fact that there isn’t a thing I have to do today. Nearly a week ago Scott tagged me to participate in a meme but I’ve been running all over Portland getting ready for […]

Last night we went to the Christmas Eve service at the Portland Unitarian Church. With a couple of exceptions, I’ve been at this service every Christmas Eve for the last 18 years. In recent years it has gotten more crowded and full of faces that aren’t familiar, but it affirms the coming of […]

We have a Christmas Eve tradition. It started some time after we stopped spending Christmas Eve at my grandma Bunny’s house in Woodland Hills, CA, and needed to create some holiday rituals that we unique to our family of two parents and two kids. Each person is given three candles and is told […]

I’ve been in Portland for seven days.  The time is feeling both long and leisurely  and wickedly fast.  So far, the trip has been wonderful.
I had dinner a couple of nights ago with a friend I’ve known since the sixth grade.  She and her family moved into a house four down from ours in the […]

Just in time for Hanukkah (well, at least the end of it) we’ve got a nice little Quick Fork about my favorite fried potato concoction.  There is just nothing like a good latke.  And, if that’s not enough for you, you can now find Fork You on iTunes!

We had originally intended to get this episode up last week, but the demands of daily life got in the way, and so that just didn’t happen.  But late is better than never at all, so for your enjoyment, Makin’ Cookie.
We made so many cookies that night that they covered every surface, and I still […]

Laying under an unadorned Christmas tree last night trying to wrestle the stand supports into place, I found myself smelling not the heady, green smell of noble fir, but instead an aroma that seemed very close to cat pee.  I mentioned the scent to my mom, who was holding up the tree.  We discussed how […]

Last night, my sister and I were getting ready to go to Mississippi Pizza to see some friends of her’s perform, when our mom said, “Wait a second, you’ve got a hair on you.”
I assumed she was talking to me, Raina thought the comment was directed at her. In absolute sync, we both raised […]

I got into Portland last night, just a few minutes before midnight.  It was a long, turbulent flight, and my rowmate was a Christian pastor who believes that the Bible is the infallible word of God.  That’s not the perspective I espouse and so we spent more than two hours telling each other what we […]