Despite the fact that I’ve lived in my apartment building for seven years, I realized recently that I’ve never allowed myself to feel totally comfortable in the community of the building. In the beginning, it was because I was so much younger than the other people living around me (in some cases fifty or sixty [...]
The last two weeks have been a whirlwind of motion and activity, in which I wake up each morning, trying to orient myself to the ways in which life is different from how it was the day before. Two Saturdays ago, Scott and I were waiting in the parking garage, planning on driving to the [...]
Tonight marks the beginning of the second annual Philly Beer Week and so we’ve turned Fork You Live this Saturday over to the theme of beer. We’ll be making a beer-braised brisket (I’ll make one ahead of time, so that there will be plenty for tasting), ale-braised cabbage (with caraway seeds and a bit of [...]
Several times today, I’ve found myself in conversations with people in which we exclaim over the fact that today is the first day of March (and it’s coming in like a lion here in Philly, with 8 to 10 inches of snow expected in the next 12 hours). However, it wasn’t until this evening that [...]
