Picks and Pans – Austin, TX

I’ve found that the places that I like the best aren’t the ones where we see the best music, or the greatest art, or even the ones with the best bookstores (although that doesn’t hurt). The places I like best are the ones where we meet people who make me think about things in a […]

Shakin’ it up with the Quakers

Aside from offering up more than it’s fair share of fun and frivolity, the City of Brotherly Love gave us the opportunity to gain some new perspectives on the roles religion, community and self-reflection play in our lives. And how, you might ask, did this happen? Why, at Quaker meeting, of course!

We got the […]

Tandemonium in Philly

with all due credit to E.B. Browning

Philly, how do we love thee? Let us count the ways. We love thee from the Schuykill to the Delaware, from N 30th Street to the zoo bridge. We love thee to the depth and breadth and height our tandem bicycles can reach. We love thee to the […]

Picks and Pans – Philadelphia

PICKS: Mutter Museum

Wax models of syphilitic sores, conjoined twin skeletons, a section of human colon formerly filled with 40 pounds of feces and a whole lot more….basically all the medical oddities you might want to see in a day, or maybe in lifetime.

A Full Plate

Erica highly recommends the […]