Serious Pie

No joke, it was probably the best pizza I’ve ever had. Reeeeally yummers. I love eating when I travel. I also only seem to do traditional working out while I travel. I wake up early and have the fitness room and pool all to myself. I think that’s what I hate about fitness clubs, they’re [...]

Land of the Rain

Ahhh, so nice to be in Seattle. Hugging my friend in person! And re-meeting my beautiful, amazing niece (I think this is what I’ll call her going forward – gawd-daughter is awkward and since I’m Auntie Nickie it makes sense ) Listening to KEXP on the actual airwaves! Sleep time, I’ll backtime this [...]

Pittsburgh, Part Six and Part Seven

There was some swimming. And some pizza and pirogi eating. And movie watching and beer drinking. And some lovely hanging out and talking. Accordion playing. Local library going. And I forgot to write anything down and got lazy with the picture snapping cuz I was just enjoying being. Donut getting and final porch sitting. And [...]

Pittsburgh, Part Five

Sunday overview: Crossing bridges and new areas in search of breakfast. Squirrel Hill, busy chaos diner, and lotsa butter. Watch Goddard’s Made in USA in air conditioning. Beautiful Anna Karina and colors. Go food shopping for whiskey lemonade and pasta salad. Games at side-alley porch – next to Sonny’s! Bananagrams and Scrabble, cicadas and samba [...]

Pittsburgh, Part Four

Saturday overview: Sonny’s Tavern (see Day One for reference)!!! My perfect neighborhood bar: Nina Simone’s Sinnerman played on the jukebox, clean beer glasses, Dogfish IPA. The awesome! Take-A-Break Bar – huge beers, smoking indoors, bartender with a hard night – gave a clove and got a rose. Drove around surrounding areas on way to art [...]

Pittsburgh, Part Three

Friday overview: Lunch @ Quiet Storm in Garfield. <3 cafe. Great graphic novel shop with author/artist and passionate recommendations. And then Jerry's Records – Amazing prices and quantity! SO GOOD! Battle of wounded knee and feet. Pirogies at Bloomfield Bridge Tavern, so good! Sauerkraut and potato/cheese. Always ask for directions. Night listening to records and [...]

Pittsburgh, Part Two

Thursday Overview: Andy Warhol Museum! John Cale <3 The Strip. Walking! Steelers in the Air. Met Alyson's artist friend Carle. Library. Drive-in. Indian food with huge paneer cheese chunks. Niko's and booths and dirty beer glasses. Amazing smoggy orange sunset. Perfect clouds. Perfect porch.

Sunflower Garden

Rat Manor

Coca Cafe

This was a rad painting. And Alyson.
The other paintings [...]

Pittsburgh, Part One

Some bits from my trip east to visit with my friends Alyson and Kelsey.
Wednesday overview: Chatty bus driver. Niceness over delayed flight led to upgrade to economy plus. Joy of ear plugs. And then economy plus plus. Flying through cotton candy clouds. Right over downtown. Forested green airport. Seeing my friend Alyson!! Laughing, catching [...]

Mostly Back

There was the two hour flight delaying, waiting in the plane on the tarmack with a full flight of farting, seat-kicking lunatics. And then my truck wouldn’t start. Thank goodness for AAA and fast, friendly drivers; I was back in action only an hour later. Nothing too exciting after that rolled in mid early morning [...]

Update from a Lovely Apartment,

In a Lovely City.
I’ve been on the go go go! I’m not going to go into details yet b/c I want to couple them with some of the pictures I’ve been snapping, but suffice to say I’m having an amazing time. I logged into my email to 148 new messages, yikes! I’m going through them [...]