tidying up | yours, tiramisu
T is staying over at our apartment this week, so I spent the morning deep cleaning the apartment. It's been a while (maybe an entire year, now that I think a...| yours, tiramisu
Answering some questions about hobbies from mxn just to keep the writing juices flowing.| yours, tiramisu
(Even for a creative writing instructor to go to his first creative writing workshop!)| yours, tiramisu
It's 10 PM and it's been a long day in the middle of a long week, but I like being someone who has written for three days straight and would really like to make that four. Streaks are such a powerful motivator for me, though they can also work against me: the longer I go without writing, the more I despair that I have lost all my faculties.| yours, tiramisu
We write to heighten our own awareness of life. We write to lure and enchant and console others. We write to serenade our lovers. We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospection. We write, like Proust, to render all of it eternal, and to persuade ourselves that it is eternal. We write to be able to transcend our life, to reach beyond it. We write to teach ourselves to speak with others, to record the journey into the labyrinth. We write to expand our world when we feel strang...| yours, tiramisu
I went over to J's this week to make dinner. We made a chicken pot pie and ate it while watching the Bengals play the Steelers. It was delicious. Some notes for next time: taste (and season) the filling before it goes in the oven, aim for a slightly thinner consistency, and use more pie crust. Pie crust slightly browned in the oven is so good, I could eat it on its own.| yours, tiramisu
T is staying over at our apartment this week, so I spent the morning deep cleaning the apartment. It's been a while (maybe an entire year, now that I think a...| yours, tiramisu
The first day of fall was a few weeks ago, but to me, it isn’t really fall until a day like yesterday, when you step outside and get caught unawares by newfound bite in the air. That, to me, is the real first day of fall.| yours, tiramisu
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The Queens Night Market has been on my radar for a while now, but fatigue and plans have conspired to keep me from it every Saturday evening I remember it ex...| yours, tiramisu
I with and the title I received is: Things I envy others a little for. — Humm. I was telling someone that envy is I least identify with. But I am n...| A parenthetical departure
We ran out of rice in the apartment a few weeks ago, so today J and I used that as an excuse to go on a food crawl in Flushing / Murray Hill. ...| yours, tiramisu
I deleted WhatsApp today. It is the last of Meta’s products I use, and has proved the hardest to get rid of. I first got the app to message new friends wh...| yours, tiramisu
