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 [...]
Waiting in line at my local hardware store yesterday afternoon, getting some keys made for a friend, I found myself standing behind an elderly woman. She was buying a mop, some light bulbs, a few bottles of cleaning products and a few other things I couldn’t see clearly. She wore a curly brown [...]
Saturday afternoon, I was walking home from Reading Terminal Market, after having seen a Film Festival movie and lunch at Cafe Spice with friends. Cindy and I hit the market after lunch, although the thought of buying food after eating so much made our stomachs revolt slightly. We parted ways after our joint [...]
I’ve been sitting in front my computer for hours, trying to figure out how make a short story for my narrativity theory class work. It’s about how the small scents and sights of life can transport us to other times and places. Which, if you think about it, is a fairly mundane story topic. While [...]
Tomorrow I’m hosting the Carnival of the Mundane. The last time I did this back last September was a hoot, and so I’m looking forward to it once more. If you have a blog post that’s particularly mundane, please feel free to send it my way for inclusion.
Over at Fork You, we’ve got [...]
I can’t seem to keep a rosemary plant alive in my apartment, although for some reason the little bay tree I got about a year ago is doing fine.
My sister got pulled over by the cops someplace in Oklahoma a couple of days ago, because she was driving 55 miles an hour to conserve gas. [...]
Today, for the first time in my life, I found myself wondering what will happen to my books when I die. When I inherited my apartment, most of my grandparents’ stuff came along with it, including hundreds of books. Over the past five years, I’ve given most of them away, although a few [...]
I killed the cockroach tonight. It was standing on my washing machine, sniffing the side of a jar of apple cider, looking both innocent and prehistoric. I tried to move slowly towards the rolling pin the dishdrainer, but it sensed my movement and started to run. Lucky for me, it ran under a cookie sheet. [...]
I woke up this morning to a lake of chicken fat a foot in diameter on my kitchen counter. It spread underneath the microwave and dribbled down the sides of the crockpot from which it had originated. Let this be a lesson to you. Never overfill a crockpot when you make chicken broth from the [...]
There’s a lot going on in my life lately, but nothing that is easily distilled down into a touching or remarkable blog entry. I’m actually feeling kind of parched right now, without the ability to fertilize an idea into bloom. I’ve spend the last three plus months writing more than I’ve ever done before and [...]
