I've launched a blog! Will Bike for Change (or Pie!) is a blog focused on sustainable food and bicycling.  I'll still post here occasionally - because I do so incredibly often now - when I want to write about something that doesn't fit in those two categories.  But most of my writing will be over there, as I plan to post once to twice a week.  I ( Read more... )

I've always wanted to get a makeover. I've fulfilled that dream, although in a different way than I ever expected ( Read more... )

House-hunting will break your heart. If you're lucky, it will also mend it ( Read more... )

As it turned out, I wasn't the only one celebrating an important occasion ( Read more... )

I've had a mixed record with birthdays ( Read more... )

After a week of vacation, it was quite a surprise to get work off again less than a month later. The first week of February, the snow began falling on Friday morning. The forecast was so threatening (more than 8 inches before 5 PM) that they sent all non-essential federal employees home four hours early, so people wouldn't be stuck if the outdoor ( Read more... )

Now that daffodils are sprouting, it seems that I can definitely say we survived the D.C. Winter of 2009-2010 ( Read more... )

Whenever I mention that my favorite band is terribly obscure in the U.S., the person I'm talking to inevitably says, "What's their name? I bet I know them." Then, of course, when I say "the Manic Street Preachers," they'll say, "Oh. I've never heard of them." But on a chilly night this past fall, I was surrounded by Americans who would not only ( Read more... )

My high school friends introduced me to the fine art of the bad movie. Ever since the first party I attended with them - Ed's birthday party in 11th grade - I've watched a series of memorably horrible films. Starting with Castle Freak, we viewed everything from City of the Walking Dead ("And the nightmare became reality!") to Dracula 3000 ("I'm a ( Read more... )

Cape Cod Vacation

Day FourThe next day, we did the one singular thing that I absolutely wanted to do on this trip - take a whale watch. When I was in third grade, I took a trip to Boston with my mom's school, where we went on a whale watch and saw a huge pod of dolphins jumping alongside the ship on the way back. That same year, we travelled to ( Read more... )