Cleveland Love

The rituals continue cyclical, shifting with age, as we're no longer required to do cutesy little kid Christmasy things like sing "...

We were the youngest by far, entering late through the side door past the aged faithful, as the organ played Bach and we settled in on the f...

Not that I'm complaining about the lack of snow. It's pretty awesome and I can't help but think of this.

the ache in my jaw, the boxes in the front room, the social obligations of consumeristic holidays, the final exam in three days, all things ...

I have yet to figure out if geekery is inevitable, as me and my youngest sister were raised in the same household and exposed to the same in...

As I watched desert warriors play songs of protest and assertions of humanity, the drone of electric guitars, the heartbeat catharsis of cal...

Cramming the first draft of a paper, trolling for citations, a brief interlude in Pittsburghia with friends from the old days. We listen to ...

The rain so soothing last night, the soft rush of breeze and comforting grey, for melancholy music and the first preludes of the autumnal. L...

At the beginning of this weekend, I never expected to be in the backyard of a lakefront mansion, learning how to merengue from someone I...

The wedding was beautiful and the luscious bits of Song of Solomon quoted. I'm sure most of the climbing the palm tree and taking hold o...

As a perpetual wallflower and shy person, it felt good on Sunday morning to not be in front of a microphone thrashing away with an electric ...

The sky is overcast, the weather cold, and a decade of Catholicism still makes me want to be in settings of candlelight and arched ceilings ...

The place of employment was uncharacteristically quiet, with the occasional drunk, and a few bored conspiracy theorists. I should've tak...

"This will keep you up past midnight." Due to my massive caffeine consumption, I wasn't expecting a demitasse cup of Ethiopian...

This, while being too melancholy and dramatic for the radio, is one of my favorite Christmas carols, especially when sung in a huge old ston...

With a Christmas vacation pending for the first time since my high school graduation, I am so ready to go home even though I'm watching ...

I spent Friday night watching little kids dressed up like angels run around as the adults are telling great stories and me and a fellow acad...

I got the day off today because of the weather though it's honestly not all that bad... I did my show at the station so I had to go down...

My birthdays are never epic, but this one's been especially good for not having much going on... not stressing about dead ends, not euph...

The leaves have come down, the cold is here to stay, and I love wearing thermals and hoodies again and resurrected the flannel shirt permane...