Kate Stoltzfus's blog

I've got to get something off my chest. This was not the first time I met Amanda Leff Ritchie. Through a random Twitter exchange, we realized that I had sublet an apartment in Squirrel Hill to her and her then boyfriend in 2007. Luckily, even after a dramatic apartment transition debacle involving an air conditioning unit and two missing (stolen?) candy bars, she still consented to be the first person featured on yinzpiration.com. It felt only natural to put our rocky start aside for an interview over coffee at Kiva Han in Oakland.