When I was a kid, I was really terrible at handling change. I couldn’t stand it when activities and events would alter from the path that I had been ready for. Unexpected moments would send me into teary conniptions. My mom would often have to prepare me when we’d go out, […]

Make sure to check out the edition of the Philadelphia Weekly that hits the streets tomorrow, as there is a story in there about my Reading Terminal Market blogging project.  I was both taken aback and flattered that they were interested in doing a story about me so early into the project, but I’m hoping […]

Growing up, I was the luckiest kind of kid, because I had two parents who loved me beyond measure.  No matter what crappy things happened in my life, I knew absolutely that my parents adored me, would take care of me and that there was nothing I could do to stop them from loving me […]

1. Paths of Victory - Bob Dylan (The Bootleg Series)
2. Forever For Her - The White Stripes (Get Behind Me Satan)
3. Some Day You Gotta Dance - Dixie Chicks (Fly)
4. Can’t Take Love For Granted - Mary Chapin Carpenter (Shooting Straight in the Dark)
5. Jaybird March - Classic Old Time Music (from the Smithsonian)
6. Oh, […]

When I was 22, I spent the summer in Indonesia.  While I was there, I took a two-day bus trip across the island of Java.  We started out in Jakarta and made our way over to Bali.  Somewhere towards the end of our time on the bus, but before we rode the ferry that took […]

Sitting at the stoplight at Midvale Ave., waiting to turn left onto Kelly Drive, I noticed a car was trying to cross over Midvale from the gas station parking lot to the right turn lane.  I made some space and the grey Honda Civic scooted through.  Only after it passed did I realize that it […]

I promised myself that when I started up the Reading Terminal Market blog that I wouldn’t forsake this one for that new and shiny website. Well, that resolution is falling all to pieces, as I’m having a hard time keeping up with the pace of writing I’ve set up for myself these days (and […]

Check out this latest episode of Fork You, in which we roast a chicken on top of a bed of veggies. Easy and delicious. Especially good with a side of steamed broccoli.
*I would just like to comment, for the record, that Scott names all the episodes. I had nothing to […]

When I was a sophomore in high school, I was on my school’s Constitution Team.  Each year more than 100 students applied for the 30 available spots on the team, so it was an honor to be awarded a position on the team.  It was an intense, year-long commitment, in which you attended a three-hour […]

1. The Circle Game - Joni Mitchell (Ladies of the Canyon)
2. Romance in Durango  - Bob Dylan (Desire)
3. Save Up All Your Tears - Cher (Greatest Hits)
4. Blue Moon of Kentucky - Elvis Presley (The Sun Sessions)
5. Finest Lovin’ Man - Bonnie Raitt (Live at the Philly Folk Fest)
6. My Dog Jesus - Mare Wakefield […]