Friends, family, strangers, hello at last. This blog is to enable anyone who's interested to see what's doin' here in Brooklyn, what I'm working on, what funny thing happened to me on the bus, etc.. (Someone leave a post telling me how many periods that should end with, does the abbreviation get its own, or does it share with the end of the sentence?)

To catch you up, last spring I realized two things: I was sitting on a gold mine in the form of my Washington, D. C., condo, and I'm going to die. So I sold the condo, quit my beloved job at the Washington City Paper and moved to Brooklyn, New York, to pursue writing full-time. I know, people do this when they're in their twenties, not forties. Shut up.

My life in Brooklyn is surprisingly well-populated and between the other City Paper employees in diaspora and visitors, I've had more of a social life here than I did in Washington. But I only lived there fifteen years, I was probably just on the verge of cracking the social scene when I left.

Since moving in October, I've been going to shows, having people over (there will be those of you who remember when I boasted of never having served a meal to a guest in my home), and wrote a screenplay with my friend Andy Rogers. Andy's an actor here in New York, whom I met when we both worked at LL Bean in Portland, Maine. If you also worked with us, um, that's not really the dumb thing you said that we put in the script, it's all a coincidence.

Pictures should be coming along soon, and I'll be posting at least once a week. Please take a sec to say howdy.