January 3rd could have been just another day in Philadelphia. Just another Monday. But thanks to a certain four-letter word that tends to send Philadelphians […]
Last summer, my two small children, my late husband’s mother and I took a road trip across Utah in a 25-foot rented RV. On the […]
In November of 2020, my daughter and her husband took my two-year-old granddaughter to Africa for three weeks to visit relatives — in the midst […]
As best as Karen Hepp can remember, Steve Keeley was the first to see it. You know Steve Keeley: He’s the perpetually tanned, square-jawed Fox […]
On a Tuesday morning in late fall, I found myself on the floor of my bedroom, kneading the hard part of my knuckles into the […]
A few years ago, Jethro Heiko’s relationship with maple syrup was pretty much the same as yours and mine. For me, that means there’s a […]
It’s a balmy fall afternoon in the middle of evening rush hour at Broad and Olney — one of the city’s busiest transit hubs — and I’m waiting for […]
My fundamental belief about vegetarians (and vegans) is this: They are all better than me, and I will never become one. I love bacon and […]
Shannon Maldonado waves at the minimalist dark green cart in the corner of Yowie, the buzzy 250-square-foot shop and design studio she runs on 4th […]
Like most working parents, Marissa has a lot to juggle — kids, her job as a nutritionist, her home outside of Philadelphia. And then there […]
In last month’s issue of Philly Mag, my good friend and colleague, Christy Lejeune, wrote about how the pandemic is the perfect opportunity to embrace […]
Nothing draws attention to the passage of time like doing the same thing every year, and nothing marks disruption like not being able to do […]
It was one of those cloudless, golden September days, and my husband and I decided to take our son and daughter to Valley Forge National […]
When local pelvic-floor yoga therapist Debbie Brownstein first became aware of her own pelvic floor, she was 30 years old. One year after having her […]
“I realize what I’m doing is very unorthodox,” said Shannon Harris as she stood at the podium holding a ream of handwritten notes, her voice […]
