Today I got an email from myself that I wrote a year ago. I had totally forgotten that I had written a note and left it at futureme.org, for future delivery. But it was a treat to receive it, and an interesting experience to learn that I am not where I expected to be last [...]
Driving home from class tonight, just about a minute off City Line Ave., I almost hit a deer in the road. I take a back way that abutts Fairmount Park and links up to West River Drive, but I’ve never seen any wild life up that way until tonight. I was going along, talking to [...]
Walking through the produce section of the Rittenhouse Market, I was stopped by a woman holding her hand up like a traffic cop and waving it at me slightly. She looked to be in her early 60’s, had stylishly short dark hair and wore a black suit that would have impressed my fashionable grandmother.
“When a [...]
Making my way down to the movies at the Ritz at the Bourse tonight, I started idly thinking about the possibility of running into someone I had once dated once I got there. I don’t know what made this thought pop into my mind. Possibly it was that I was going alone, which often ups [...]
Tuesday night, I went to the Dixie Chicks concert with some friends. In the crowd of almost 15,000 I managed to run into the two sets of friends I knew were going to the show, as well as my roommate.
Last night, I went to see “Who Killed the Electric Car” (which was a fascinating, painful [...]
This morning while I was walking into my office building, I happened to glance up and make eye contact with a man just in front of me. He was walking into the building as well. He took a cursory look at me, and then looked more intently and said, “Hey, how are you [...]
I’m sitting at my computer right now, vibrating slightly from all the sugar in the cup of gelato I just ate. I am floored that it is already Thursday night, with less than 75 minutes to go until Friday.
I’ve been going non-stop for the last seven days, every crevice of my last full week before [...]
Walking towards the Biello/Martin studio tonight to see a friend of my sister’s show, I found myself standing on the corner of 3rd and Arch. The light was not yet mine, but still I looked down Arch, as any good Philadelphian would do, gaging the cars as they sped towards me, trying to see if [...]
Heading home from work tonight, my plans for the evening consisted of a panini from Di Brunos, a book and a park bench in Rittenhouse Square. 45 minutes after I got home, I managed to pull myself off the couch and back out into the world. I got my sandwich and headed for [...]
Today was warm enough that I could head outside to eat my lunch. The morning at work had been kind of emotionally trying, and so I needed to get away from my desk for a bit and let some of the stress trickle off my body and onto the sidewalk that edges Market Street. [...]
