About a week ago I came to the conclusion that I was done with roommates.  I decided that no matter what it took, when January rolled around and my current roommate moved on, I was not going to replace him.  I was ready to do whatever it took to ensure that I did not need […]

I think that this might the only Halloween in my entire life that I have acknowledged not at all.  I didn’t attend a single party (although I was invited to three last Saturday night).  I didn’t carve a pumpkin or don a costume or even see a single cute costumed child today.  All I thought […]

My apartment always feels so empty and quiet after she leaves. She has been this way since birth, always bringing great energy to any place she inhabits. It can be overwhelming while you’re having the experience of her, but when she’s gone, the straightened couch pillows and clear surfaces don’t seem nearly as appealing […]

I had a thesis deadline last week and when it came around, I was unprepared.  For some reason I have been wholy unable to connect with the creative detail-aware side of myself from which most of my writing comes from.  I’ve kept on posting at Slashfood, because that writing rarely needs to tap deeper resources, […]

When my apartment was initially fitted out back in 1965, the builders installed a revolutionary and space saving device.  It was a combination washer/dryer that could take a load of laundry from dirty to clean within the confines of a single unit.  It was an amazing appliance for a kitchen like mine, where space is […]

I didn’t get out of bed this morning until nearly 11 am, didn’t shower until a few minutes before 5 pm and didn’t actually walk through my front door until 6:45 pm (am I a grad student, or what). It was a fairly lovely, lazy day (although I did spend a few moments beating […]

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 […]

I am back in Philadelphia, it’s my 28th birthday and I’m going to see Waitress tonight.  These are good things.
Yesterday was a very long day of travel, including a four hour flight next to a vomiting (four barf bags passed through his hands) seven year old, an already-long 3 hour layover in Detroit stretching into […]

I was completely unprepared for the rush adrenaline I felt this morning as I helped count the ballots. My hands shook as I unfolded slip after slip of paper, marveling with relief that they (almost) all said yes. We stacked the ballots in piles of ten, setting the single no off to the […]

One of my favorite books when I was growing up was a story and picture book called A Time To Keep by Tasha Tudor. It was a detailed, month by month account of the celebrations that her family would have throughout the year. My favorite month was May, not only because that was […]