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Archive for July, 2007

Soap and terrific customer service

Thursday, July 19th, 2007

Sitting on the couch tonight, looking around my apartment for something to jump out at me and inspire a blog post, I accidentally swallowed a cherry pit.  I bought the cherries at the huge Wegmans grocery store in Cherry Hill, NJ (I wonder if there was a time that cherries actually grew in Cherry Hill?).
I […]

Everything

Wednesday, July 18th, 2007

Standing in the lobby of my apartment building tonight, I overheard someone say, “I’m really lucky.  I have everything I need.”  The simplicity of this statement, coupled with the totally honest tone of voice in which it was delivered floored me for a moment.  It’s not often that you hear anyone admit that level of […]

Just looking for a place to lock my bike

Tuesday, July 17th, 2007

I rode my bike down to a friend’s house tonight, to have dinner with a group of women with whom I used to eat lunch with every Tuesday when I worked at Penn. It was part celebration and part send-off as a couple people are either graduating or heading off to new grad school […]

Chopped liver choppers

Monday, July 16th, 2007

One summer when my mom and I were visiting my grandma Tutu (hawaiian for grandmother) in Philly, I remember my mom taking a utensil out of the drawer in the kitchen and bringing it back to Portland with us. She called it a chopped liver chopper (because that’s what Aunt Doris has used it […]

Where I’ve been lately…

Friday, July 13th, 2007

It’s been a light-posting week over here at Apartment 2024 (as well as over my my Reading Terminal blog).  I have a couple of good reasons for that.  The first is that I spent the last two days hanging out at the Radisson-Plaza Warwick Hotel at the first ever BlogPhiladelphia Unconference.  It was a terrific […]

Mini pinch pies

Tuesday, July 10th, 2007

I have recently found myself awash in organic, free-range eggs. I bought a dozen for myself last week at Reading Terminal, not knowing that my house-sitting gig was also going to come with a bunch. Sherri and Matt, the regular residents of the house, belong to a CSA (Community Supported Agriculture). In […]

Yet one more synchronous moment

Monday, July 9th, 2007

I’ve been riding my bike a lot lately. Two summers ago I sprained my ankle while dismounting (I am very graceful) and that was enough to keep me off for a while. But with gas prices the way they are now, I’ve been turning to my trusty orange bike as an effective and […]

Victoria and the purple tomatoes

Sunday, July 8th, 2007

Walking silently, second of six in a single-file line, through the organic farm that separates the retreat center from the main convent, I heard someone holler, “Is that Marisa McClellan I see?”
I looked up to see a very tan person pull the hat off her head and use it to extend the waving arm she’s […]

Quick Fork 11: Summer Spirits

Friday, July 6th, 2007

The latest episode of Fork You is up and running. We made summery alcoholic beverages on my friend Jen’s Wash West roof deck, with a view of the city serving as our backdrop. We should have kept the cameras running, because things got good when we finished recording and started drinking. Scott […]

Sitting on the sidewalk with a stranger from Georgia

Thursday, July 5th, 2007

If you had been walking down the 1700 block of Chestnut Street on Tuesday morning at around 11:30 am, you would have found me sitting on the sidewalk, just next to the Men’s Warehouse, talking with a woman who was sitting by my side.
I had been walking down to the Staples at the corner of […]

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