Recently I had a Philadelphia defining moment. This involved buying a map. I love maps. I am severely directionally challenged. Since I was once upon a time a wilderness guide, maps became my best friend. Well, maps and a flask of whiskey. If you get lost, take a little nip to clear your head. If…

As everyone knows, the first rule to being an exceptional houseboy is not having a warm meal waiting for your woman, it’s not cleaning house, it’s not taking masseuse lessons, no, it is looking sexy for your miss when she returns home from a long day at the office. No lady wants to come home,…

So in the last chapter, we left you on a bus to Atlantic City. We met at a Sonoco station in downtown Philadelphia and joined a charter bus full of inebriated ivy leaguers. Plus your humble author. The closest I ever came to ivy league was when Mosley and I snuck into a Harvard dorm to…

Well, they let me in and out of Atlantic City. Last night, Friday, Nov. 5, 2010, Lisa Ohkawa and I and two busloads of her “cohorts” traveled to Atlantic City for a night of carousing and mild debauchery. The UPenn class of 2012 is divided into 12 groups of cohorts, consisting of about 70 students…

Where in Philadelphia is this 12th floor 5 star restaurant? Why, that is none other than my new apartment at Rittenhouse Square! On Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2010 (election day) I packed my meager belongings in Marengo, Iowa (pop. 2,500) and moved to Philadelphia, Pa. (pop. way more than Marengo). My girlfriend Lisa Ohkawa is going to…