So Low-Rent
I know I seemed pretty definitive about moving in my last post, but the cold, hard reality is a little different, which I already knew in the back of my head. I can only justify […]
Beaver State of Mind
Westward
In a few hours I’ll be heading out to Seattle, which is weird considering up until January I’d only been once in my life despite living 170 miles away for a huge chunk of my […]
Driven to Distraction
I’m ready to take a big step in 2016. Yep, I’m throwing out makeup that doesn’t suit me or is a waste of my time. This gun metal gray Julep polish, Kim (what a horrible […]
East-West and Back
So, I was in Seattle and Portland the past two weeks. (And now I’m exhausted, achey, and head-coldy like 99% of the time I fly into NYC but never when I land anywhere else.) Didn’t […]
What’s Happning
Last week a friend mentioned that I post a lot about dating on Facebook and I was like, “I do?” and was moderately horrified because I don’t want to be that woman. At least not […]
Let’s Sweat the Small(ey) Stuff
Sometimes I feel dumb because I often don't get literary references, and don't really know my critical theorists or philosophers. No one's stopping me from looking them up, this slice of the world is just […]
Eastern Oregon to Eastern Bloc
Sunriver, one of the Eastern Oregon desert resorts where kids from Gresham (maybe Portland, too?) might get to go swim on a daytrip, that I was just re-reminded about, is on Sniqueaway today. Is $139 […]
Would You Like Fry With That?
Of the 20 million things that annoy me on a daily basis (I just discovered that the sound of a spoon rapidly scraping the remaining bits of yogurt from a plastic container makes me violent—hmm…no, […]
Not Catching the Worm
I’m not sure which is more Portland: chastising someone ran over by a cab (driven by a female—very un-NYC) while sleeping in their motel room for still being in bed at 11am (my family all […]
Worse or Worser
Now that my limit of New York Times articles had been set to beginning-of-month zero, I’m strategizing how to make September’s twenty last. After only clicking into the Fashion & Style section, I’m already torn. […]