I have not moved since May of 2002, when I settled into my current apartment (which, if you’ve been following along for awhile will know has been in my family since 1966). During college I moved nearly every six months and always thought that I’d be the sort of person who’d live in several [...]
It might have been a little insane on my part, but I signed up to participate in National Blog Posting Month (NaBloPoMo). This means that I’m committing to myself and the rest of the world that I’ll be posting something on this here site everyday throughout the month of November.
That’s on top of my posts [...]
This afternoon I was standing in Suburban Station, waiting for a train that would take me back out to Germantown and my mechanic’s garage, when a man approached me. He was dressed in ragged clothes and one of his front teeth looked as if it was rotting away in his mouth.
He said to me, “Excuse [...]
This morning I peeled myself out of bed, stumbled into the shower and headed off to take my car to my mechanic before noon. I tried to explain the problems I’ve been having, including the strange chugging and won’t turn off issue I ran into last week. He listened carefully, wrote my phone [...]
I spent Thursday evening and all of Friday writing, holed up in a little cabin out in Aston, PA, at a retreat center run by an order of Franciscan nuns. I wrote recipes and stories and managed to chug out nearly thirty pages of text, which brings me within 9 pages of the necessary 75. [...]
This last weekend, I drove down to Washington, DC to visit Cindy. I hadn’t been to see her since she relocated down that way in July. I didn’t get down there until sometime after 7 pm on Saturday night. Traffic was stop and go for the last 40 minutes, during which time my car started [...]
I am sitting in the Kansas City, Missouri International Airport (I do love an airport with free wifi), waiting for my 6 am flight back to Philly. I stayed in a Hampton Inn last night, going to bed too late to possibly get a good night’s sleep and then waking up every half hour, [...]
I met with my thesis adviser on Friday morning. She invited me to come to her new house in Fishtown, but I sorely underestimated the time it would take to get up there and so was nearly half an hour late (I did call to say I was running behind). Not exactly the best way [...]
I’ve been sort of struggling lately. I’ve taken on a lot and I’m finding that writing for pay, doing my school work and still having time to relax, is hard. A couple of nights ago, I was on the phone with my mom, talking about how overwhelmed I was and she said, “Just find one [...]
I did one of my favorite things tonight. I went to the movies alone. I realize that some people find this tendency strange, but it’s not like you talk during movies, so having someone there with you often seems sort of pointless.
I saw a Philly Film Society free screening of Feast of Love which is [...]
