Dance Dance Revolution
On High Scores I kept missing the arrows, which I blamed on the shoes I was wearing—my big, hideous Sorel snow boots that, for a weekend in January in...
Eating Alone at Yume Ga Arukara
On getting it perfect. Is this technically a restaurant review? The other night, after getting a haircut, but before getting home, I needed dinner. The...
Hanging Out with a Cat at the End of His Life
Hanging Out with a Cat at the End of His Life On the in between. By the time we arrived, just before Christmas, Moose’s interest in food had already waned....
2023 in Enthusiasms
If my long-neglected embroidery-in-progress is any indication, it is not always easy to keep up with a creative project. But in 2023, I have come here...
$12 Milk Frother from Williams Sonoma
The mega-yacht owners of the world would have you believe that luxury is a rarity reserved only for those who can afford it, but I am here to tell you that...
Waking Up From a Nap To Find out Henry Kissinger Died
When I was in Hanoi, I went to the Vietnam Military History Museum, where, for the first time, I encountered what was true: the United States had lost. I...
Walking Through a Little Pile of Leaves
On the days I work from home, I do my little stomp around the neighborhood to maintain a sense of well-being. caption... Just the other morning, I passed a...
MBTA Commuter Rail to Providence
I thought the train left at 7:00 a.m., so I set my alarm for 5:00 and, somehow, was still asleep at 5:48 when the cats woke me up instead. Twenty minutes and...
Halloween
I think I have dressed up as something for a solid 97% of Halloweens, minus the few lost years between the ages of 11–14 or so, when everything else about...
Flipping the Record Over
I gotta say, the amount of terrible things that happen in and in the name of the United States makes this project feel silly sometimes. But, I think, for me,...
Popping Your Ears
No one really tells you how many indignities you’ll suffer on account of having a body. These are just things you learn, living in the body you have. I hate...
Sneakers
I was talking to someone earlier today who said they felt like a scrambled egg, which is exactly how I feel on this spooky Friday the 13th afternoon! That’s...
Berlin U-Bahn
Buying a ticket was as confusing as I remembered. The first time I was in Berlin, in 2015, I just picked whatever and hoped, in the event that someone came...
The Novel Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2)
I was about midway through eating a popsicle when I realized I didn’t really know what it tasted like. Do these have a flavor? I called up the stairs to C.,...
Lanternflies
I tried to recall where my friend had lived in Brooklyn, but everything had changed so much since then, or, otherwise, each block looked the same as the last...
Expensive Fruit
We bought peaches with the intention of making pie. They cost $30 at the fancy little food store, an exorbitant amount that we were, nonetheless, too proud...
Ice Cream Cone
On Sunday afternoon, I was in a mood. The self-pitying kind that propagates, curdles. It started when what I anticipated to be a simple bike repair turned...
Sailing
I like sailing for some of the same reasons I like riding a bike—it’s you and a machine working together to get somewhere. You could become proficient at...
Changing a Tire
Changing a tire is, I guess, one of those life skills that are handy to have as an adult—like poaching an egg or avoiding someone you don’t want to see out...
Sharktivity
This week, I’m running one from the archives. Please enjoy this 2018 vintage Enthusiasms on Sharktivity, which I firmly believe is the only good app and one...
