Tag: friends

  • Make Your Own Scene

    I’ve really been thinking about Austin Kleon’s post, Find a New City, which I also included in the last Lunchtime Reads link roundup. In it, he references Patti Smith saying that New York has priced itself out of being an option for young, creative people who want to do something weird and potentially not lucrative.…

  • An Invitation Is Not an Imposition

    The other night I was chatting with friends over soft pretzels and beer at Frankford Hall about some of my anxieties around socializing. “I have this weird thing,” I told them, “where I won’t invite people to do things or initiate making plans because I feel like I’m imposing. It’s so weird. I don’t know…

  • A Confession & The Real Magic of Alt Summit

    I have a confession. My biggest concern and source of anxiety about going to Alt Summit last week was that the people I’d meet there would be super self-promoting, superficial, and disinterested in sincere conversation and friendship. Boy was I wrong. I’d just read so much about the time and effort that goes into the…

  • How to Go Home

    Drive twelve hours with one of your very favorite people. You will not need music. You will not need podcasts. There will not be silence. When there is, it will mean something. Make countless coffee stops. Count six deer welcoming you back into Pennsylvania. You count in case your father asks if you’ve seen any.…

  • 26

    New Year’s week always feels a bit more significant to me, I think, because my birthday is on January 5. So I’m truly beginning a new year, not just of the calendar, but of life. From Friday: It feels like a new decade to me. I turn 26 tomorrow, and it’s like crossing some threshold…