“I tramp a perpetual journey,My signs are a rain-proof coat and good shoes and a staff cut from the woods;No friend of mine takes his ease in my chair,I have no chair, nor church nor philosophy;I lead no man to a dinner-table or library or exchange,But each man and each woman of you I lead […]
Approaching 30, things start to change. Friends start to move away for their careers, or sometimes just for a plain old change of scenery. Relationships that seemed destined for marriage dissolve in quick flashes, while other relationships that probably should have dissolved end in weddings and children and moves to the suburbs. The only permanent […]
On browsing through today’s Wall Street Journal, something in the design section caught my eye: an article detailing and explaining the return of the 70’s color palette in contemporary home decor. It explains how the 70’s color palette is being used to update contemporary styles and giving the 70’s a breath of fresh air by […]
Walking The Dog – Rufus Thomas (1963) Are you a dog person or a cat person? This is one of the prompts on the dating app Hinge, one of my favorites of their many prompts designed to start conversations among complete strangers who are attracted to each other. I find myself gravitating towards cat people, […]
The older you get, the harder it is to change your perspective on the world. Part of this is because of the repetition that seems to be a hallmark of adult life. Every day, you get up, go to work and come home, and you only get a small portion of each day to yourself […]
The following was written back in May when I had COVID and read an entire 600 page book in 1 week. I sat on it for a while, but feel like it’s time to release this into the world for anybody who may be interested: I caught COVID last week and have been in my […]
My relationship with the city of Philly now officially spans more than a decade. Though I came to the city when I was younger, I only came to the city as a knowing and willing adult circa 2011 or so, when my friend Nick, who had grown up in Manhattan but moved to my hometown, […]