I don’t do New Year’s resolutions. If I have something I want to try, I do it well before New… Read more today

Center City Philadelphia is a mess of street closures, because the Mummers Parade is New Years Day. The bleacher seating… Read more mummers

This week’s advice includes a lot about family, because it’s the holidays:

Yesterday, as a suitable activity for the stretch of nonexistence between Christmas and New Year’s, I spent an hour or… Read more deletion

Every day, I write in my journal, with a fountain pen, in cursive. I start by writing the date, and… Read more aide memoire

The winter solstice was on the 21st, Christmas Day has come and gone, and the following days, gray and weak… Read more next