A side-street cubby only marked by a handmade banner. Cherry red stools around a diner counter. Stacks of dated National Geographics. Chalkboard menus and one that reads, “Other things we make.” Sad cowboy music. And two shy waiters who are also the chefs, the designers, the artists and the owners of Jack & Zach Food on the read more
As part of their Made By Hand initiative, a pottery studio in Philly manned the city’s hubs with 500 mugs to give away, deeming it the Guerrilla Mug Assault. They offered handmade mugs from a variety of potters to pedestrians carrying their take-away cuppas to encourage everyday use of the handmade and challenge people to read more
I barely glanced around Artifact Coffee before I ordered an espresso. The barista obviously knew my type. “Do you want to start a tab?” Yes, yes I do. I whirled the espresso (Counter Culture Toscano) and perused the cafe menu soon making a hefty order: bran muffin with a crushed pecan top, yogurt with read more
This series of five posts will tell the highlights from my trip through cups, dishes, views, and good company. Before I left home, I pried my Oyster Card (for the tube) from my study abroad scrapbook. Despite the bits of dried glue and construction paper it was good as new when I headed to top read more
This series of five posts will tell the highlights from my trip through cups, dishes, views, and good company. The City of Little Bronze Plaques. Not the catchiest nickname, but it’s fitting. In Oxford, you should actually read all these momentous markers. Hundreds of history’s smartest men have walked these cobblestone mouse-maze streets at some read more
This series of five posts will tell the highlights from my trip through cups, dishes, views, and good company. As I took the train south from Coleraine to Dublin, I could sense the change from the North Coast. Off the train, my first breath affirmed that it’s harder to breathe in Dublin. That painfully pure read more
This series of five posts will tell the highlights from my trip through cups, dishes, views, and good company. I saw the North Coast through the eyes of someone who adores it. That’s a special thing. It’s rare to experience somewhere alongside a friend who calls it home and boasts in deep appreciation of it. read more
These next five posts will tell the highlights from my trip through cups, dishes, views, and good company. Over the past three years since I studied in Glasgow, Scotland, I’ve seen the whole gamut of reactions to the name. Folks tend to laugh or apologize or mistake it for Edinburgh. Did I miss something? Were read more
Any writer knows the minutia well. First, the key-vomit paragraph of ramblings on that blank white page and you’re quickly staring at an incongruent hybrid of heart stuff and kitschy zine language. You try to convince yourself that it’s real sort of. But it always reminds me that I’m young. I always think these first read more
Gathering myself in my new home in Capitol Hill of Washington, D.C. Back from my U.K. trip, living in the District, working at Peregrine, and starting to freelance has inspired me more than ever and cyclically fueled itself with all of that inspiration. Of course I wouldn’t have it any other way. I’ll get Full read more