Monthly Archives: March 2009

My 20th floor neighborhood

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 … Continue reading

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Breathlessly Catching Up

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 … Continue reading

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Fork You Live is cooking with beer this Saturday!

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 … Continue reading

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Twenty-one years

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 … Continue reading

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