Casual observers would call me bitter, but those to whom I am closest know my disenchantment is complex, deep and rooted in what is tauntingly called "the most wonderful time of the year ( Read more... )

The taste of watered down Long Island iced tea takes me back - to my childhood ( Read more... )

The heat ( Read more... )

Most Americans know nothing more about Allentown than Billy Joel's 1982 homage to the Lehigh County seat. I was one of them until May 23, the day I breezed into the lobby of The Morning Call, my car and its conspicuous Florida license plates illegally parked on a side street.
For two months and 19 days, I have scraped together a living in this ( Read more... )

By nature, I am not an overtly religious person ( Read more... )

A year apart, and I was still incapable of resisting either one of them ( Read more... )

I will miss two things about my summer in eastern Pennsylvania: H&M ( Read more... )

I am, with some reluctance, getting a tattoo ( Read more... )

I'm back ( Read more... )

The round glasses bugged out my eyes, the lightning bolt scar nearly rubbed off on my hand and I was constantly fretting that my cape would be slammed in a car door ( Read more... )