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...
Twilight in Boston
I like to note that Jonathan Richman and I share a favorite part of town. The little memorial/By the Victory Gardens — yeah, I’m imagining it right now. Few...
Hammock
On summers. Enthusiasms is on vacation for August, just like we’re in Europe. Here’s one from the archives in the meantime. <3 J — As a kid, my family’s...
Fireflies
I don’t think I’ve ever seen so many fireflies as I have when we’re on Long Island, a place I had never really thought of as being beautiful until I married...
Typos
Things happen. A family emergency left us stuck in Colorado for four more days than planned (and is also why this blog was MIA last week!) Luckily, everyone...
Rain Boots
I did not expect to cry at the boygenius concert. I just laughed out loud, typing it out—am I a stereotype? Sad girl at the sad girls show. But really, it...
Birthdays
On my birthday, everything should go my way—though the universe hasn’t always agreed with me on that. I don’t always get what I want. One year, as a kid, I...
Graduation
I guess it is foolish to expect better of our varied and variable institutions, but, as you may have seen, my alma mater invited David Zaslav, currently in...
Playing Zelda
The best thing about video games is that they are fucking funny as hell. I was going to say that I only learned this as an adult, having grown up in a...
Checking the Air in Your Bike Tires Before Every Ride
It’s not that I’m lazy. It’s that I’m, as the great Naomi Fry once tweeted, “very paris '68 in that i'm a staunch hard-edged communist as well as a decadent...
Hansen's Sno-Bliz
The first time I went to New Orleans, it was at the tail end of a breakup I didn’t want to happen. I feel like we’re both on a train to New Orleans, and I...
Cats
I consider myself a cat person, but I am mostly a my cat person. Harpo, my cat, was uncommonly good. I sometimes liked to believe that I had made him this...
The Boston Marathon
What can I say? I’m a sucker for civic pride. This is the first year that I’ve worked somewhere they actually gave me Patriots’ Day—aka Marathon Monday, aka...
Intermission
Yesterday, I had every intention of coming home from work and sitting down to write. But then, I had two beers at the end of what was an all-day work event...
Baseball on the Radio
If you cannot be at a baseball game in person, the next best way to watch is not at all. I love it, though I can understand how one might find baseball...
