Five years ago today I got on an airplane and moved to Philadelphia. Despite the fact that I was born in California and grew up in Oregon, I look at this city as the place I am from. I am the sixth generation of my family to live and work and learn in the City [...]
Yesterday I got some treats in the mail, including a book I desperately needed for class tonight, a black sock that I had accidentally left in Portland while I was there in December, a twenty year old Septa token and best of all, two copies of Raina’s new album. They did a special advanced [...]
I sometimes forget how active the city remains, even in the middle of the night. I’m up at nearly 3:30 am, completely unable to sleep. I had a cup of coffee this afternoon around 2:30 pm, after nearly two weeks without much caffeine of any stripe (coffee just isn’t the same when I have a [...]
My classes start tomorrow night. Though I have enjoyed many aspects of the unscheduled life I’ve conducted for the last month, I’m really looking forward getting into a routine that challenges me and gives me a sense of purpose.
I am grateful that I am finally feeling substantially better. The cold I complained about last week [...]
It’s Friday, late thought it may be, there’s still a little time for a the Random Friday Ten. The rules are simple, just set your pod or other digital music devise a’shufflin’ and report back the first ten songs it spits out. No omitting, altering or obfuscating allowed.
1. Crazy, Johnny Cash & Willie Nelson (VH1 [...]
Over the course of my life, I’ve come to believe in a variety of task-specific angels. The first one to develop was the parking angel, who my mom, my sister and I would entreat with varying levels of sincerity to find us a good parking spot, near to wherever we might have been headed that [...]
I was standing in my kitchen tonight, peeling some old wrinkled apples in order to turn them into apple sauce, when my cell phone rang. It was my mom, calling from my sister’s concert. She was calling to tell me how much she wished I was there. I felt a quick, sharp pang near my [...]
Last Friday I called home to Portland, only to have my mom rush me off the phone with a hurried, “I can’t talk now, I have to get your sister’s CD downtown to be mastered.”
I realize that this is not a sentence that would be heard in every family, but in mine, my sister’s career [...]
As most people who read this blog know, the apartment I live in belonged to my grandparents long before I was born. I first came here when I was just three months old and came to visit at least once a year until 2002, when I moved in for good. You’d think after [...]
I am about two months behind the curve with post, but somehow I just haven’t gotten around to baking Jim Lahey’s much-vaunted No-Knead Bread that appeared on the front page of the New York Times food section on November 8th, 2006. This amazing bread recipe/technique sent ripples through the foodie world, and you can [...]
