goodbye, tino’s. you shady little bar next to the rally’s drive-through on mayfield. i will miss walking through your swinging door with a baby on my hip having all those ladies in the dollar store parking lot eyeing me and thinking, “what in the world is she taking a baby into a bar for in [...]

goodbye, front porch.

holden arboretum, i want to write you a love note. i want to tell you how much i love you in the spring. i love your daffodils and snowdrops. i love your kelly green grass. i love your cardinals chasing each other through the trees. i love you in fall. i love your sassafras trees. [...]

oh corbo’s bakery. you make the air smell sticky and sweet. you put cassata cake in your window. you make lemon bars that remind me of the best lemon bars i’ve ever eaten (which, coincidentally, happen to be the lemon bars that you make, corbo’s bakery).

our first night in cleveland we had an empty pantry, [...]