In thinking about second chances, the theme for this week’s Sunday Scribblings, I’ve come to the realization that I’m still making my way in life through my first chances. I see all those first chances as necessarily leading me to my next first chance, and so on. Is there a point at which you feel …
Category: Series
Ocean
I grew up in a city on the water, and although it wasn’t the ocean exactly, the salty smell of the Puget Sound is comforting to me. And I didn’t realize how at home having water and that familiar salty smell made me feel until I moved away from the Northwest and discovered that people …
In The News
The first thing I do in the morning is turn on NPR so that Soterios Johnson on WNYC‘s Morning Edition can inform me about what’s happening in NYC and around the world while I sip my coffee and get ready for work. Each day for the past couple of years, hearing the number of people …
In the Kitchen
As some of you may know, my lovely roommate is moving out and we’ve been searching for someone to take her place. Do you know what this means (aside from general upheaval)? Lots and lots of searches and the posting of photos of our apartment on the internet — which, according to Flickr, have been …