I don't really like you, but I'm so good at acting as if I do that it's basically the same thing.

I love the dignity in the name Philadelphia, but at heart, we're Philly.

Nah. I'm a tough cookie. Except for the cancer, I'm fine.

I am an open book, literally. I don't mind if people know way too much about me.

I love everything about Philadelphia, and its food is like the city itself: real-deal, hearty, and without pretension. We've always had an underdog vibe as a city, but that just makes us try harder, and I love our scrappiness and scruffiness.

I love writing both fiction and memoir. Both have unique challenges; bottom line, fiction is hard because you have to come up with the credible, twisty plot, and memoir is hard because you have to say something true and profound, albeit in a funny way.