Yesterday afternoon, I was sitting at my computer at 2:30 pm, still in my pajamas, when the phone rang. It was my mom’s cousin Amy, who moved back to Philly last week after about 40 years away. She was in lobby with her sister Angie, and they wanted to know if I was interested in [...]
For the last couple of months I’ve been dropping hints that I had a new project in the works. Finally, after a fairly slow start, it is launched and I am happy to present to you Stories from Reading Terminal Market. I will be spending a considerable amount of time at Reading Terminal over the [...]
I have found that there are certain things in life that I only eat alone. Take the dinner I made myself tonight when I got home from class. I sauteed a very small onion with a few roughly chopped cloves of garlic (that by itself keeps the non-garlic lovers away). When they were starting to [...]
A couple of days ago, I emptied all the loose change from my wallet. It was getting unwieldy and difficult to close, and I figured I didn’t really need all those quarters, nickels and dimes. I had some bills, I’d be fine. I spent most of yesterday afternoon helping Cindy get ready to move all [...]
1. Verdi Cries – 10,000 Maniacs (In My Tribe) 2. Hard Times in New York Town – Bob Dylan (The Bootleg Series) 3. Wings of Angels – June Carter Cash (Press On ) 4. Dublin Boys – Antje Duvekot (Boys, Flowers, Miles) 5. Shelburne – Cross-Eyed Rosie (Lookin’ Up) 6. Least Complicated – Indigo Girls [...]
Sitting at a table in the Center Court of Reading Terminal Market this afternoon, I idly noticed as a young woman walked over to a table near me and settled in. She pulled out laptop, an external hard drive and a portable mouse, looking like she was ready to do some serious work. Opening her [...]
Throughout my life, my pattern has been that the busier I am, the more I’m able to accomplish. I fall into a mode where motion begets more motion and the energy that is created propels me from one activity to another. However, there is a downside to that pattern, which is that it is exhausting [...]
Eric, ask and you shall receive. It’s planted in a pot with my existing rosemary plant, which is why I used the card to divide the two. It’s a pretty nice, if sort of strangely shaped, little plant. I’ve never been much for naming inanimate objects, but I think we can safely say I’ll be [...]
In addition to the many boxes and suitcases of books, personal memorabilia and assorted ephemera I flung across country recently, I also brought something living and fairly fragile. If airport security had deemed me a great threat because of my tofu pate and had needed to inspect my carry-on, they would have discovered a small [...]
I find it amazing how three days away from the blog can make my writing muscles feel rusty and sore from disuse. Saturday night I threw myself a birthday party and so spent a vast portion of the weekend either preparing for it or recovering from it (mostly in a cleaning sense, as I didn’t [...]
