It’s Friday.  You know the drill.
1. Anarchy, Ani DiFranco (The Past Didn’t Go Anywhere)
2. Get Out of This House, Shawn Colvin (A Few Small Repairs)
3. Nightblindness, David Gray (White Ladder)
4. Don’t Let Me Down, The Beatles (Past Masters, Vol. 2)
5. My Night on the Floor, Box Set (Live Duo 2)
6. Toward the Horizon, Carrie Newcomer […]

Just a few minutes ago I was standing in my kitchen, putting away a few clean dishes, when I heard my cellphone ringing from my bedroom at the other end of the apartment.  I dashed for it, but didn’t get to it before the caller was sent to the land of voicemail.  Checking the missed […]

When I first moved to Philadelphia I didn’t have a car. I didn’t know many people. I worked 13 blocks down the street from where I lived. My world was small in those days, both in the physical distance I traveled regularly and in the mental space I devoted to it.
Part […]

This morning I got up fairly promptly (if 9 am can be considered prompt), hopped through the shower and got out of the apartment. I’ve discovered that if I’m going to have any hope of getting some writing done by noon that I have to leave my apartment, or a constellation of small tasks […]

(I apologize for the lack of insight or creative description in this post. Every original thought I have right now is going into the novella, which leaves very little for the blog. This has turned into a round-up of the weekend’s happenings. If that sort of thing bores you, feel free to […]

We are just about an hour into Friday, which makes it an entirely respectable time to put up my weekly set of random music.
1. Family, Dar Williams (Mortal City)
2. Jelly Belly, Medeski, Martin & Wood (Shack Man)
3. The Fox, Nickel Creek (Nickel Creek)
4. Go, Indigo Girls (Come On Now Social)
5. I Knew Love, Nanci Griffin […]

I have 25 pages of my novella due for my fiction by Monday night at 11:59 pm and I currently have about two and a half pages written. And did I mention the insanely busy weekend in store? So it makes perfect sense that I decided to start a cooking project and make […]

I went out after class tonight with some of my classmates, drank 3/4 of a beer and now feel intensely, immensely exhausted. It’s in part because we workshopped a piece of mine in class tonight. No matter how relaxed I try to make myself, I always am unnervingly tense when people start talking […]

Sitting on the trolley today, I watched a woman french braid her hair all by herself and was instantly taken back to my 11th grade chemistry class.  My lab partner in that class was a young woman with era-appropriate name of Tiffany.  We first met in the 5th grade and spent most of middle and […]

Check it out, the latest episode of Fork You had arrived. In this one we make the flourless chocolate tort that has made me famous among dozens of my friends. It doesn’t hurt that I also typically make a fruit sauce to serve along with it (this time I did up a nice […]