Nine Lives Ago
I just found out that my Portland Siamese cat, Lit’l Smokey, died this weekend. She was older than I realized, probably 13 ½. I got her way back in fall of 1994, the year I […]
Mostly Me
Walk Into My Fist
Next to the myth of people (women) claiming “I eat whatever I want” when you know good and well that they don’t, the next most irrational anger inducing is that simply walking will melt away […]
Male Pattern Fatness
Of course today’s New York Times article, “The Fat Pack Wonders if the Party’s Over” is timely since I write about food and am apparently at death’s door. But what I was gratified to see […]
Queens for A Day…or 1,068, Give or Take
Wow, it only took ten years. Lovely Ridgewood, Queens, the neighborhood I unknowingly moved into in 1998 is now being hipsterfied? I figured it would eventually happen (and frankly, much sooner). I haven’t visited the […]
Cougar Territory
“Why do you young people have such high blood pressure?” scolded the nurse in a Jamaican patois that I’m not about to try and mimic in writing. All I heard was “young people” and took […]
With a Cherry on Top
The most unexpectedly compelling Christmas gift so far (I haven’t received all of my presents yet) is Sodalicious, a self-published cookbook written by the father of one of my mom’s coworkers. Every recipe includes soda […]
Worse Than Discovering Your Dad is Santa Claus
Earlier this year I kicked off a new category intended to be about blasts from library shelves past because I love revisiting old childhood books (I noticed Jezebel just started a review of ‘80s YA […]
We’re Number Eight!
In U.S. Name Count, Garcias Are Catching Up With Joneses…phew, I can relax now. I was aware that my surname is hardly uncommon but I had no idea it was the most popular Hispanic last […]
New Joy
I’ve been known to torment friends with film. In college I was convinced that The Disorderly Orderly was pure genius (not to be confused with Disorderlies). Then I went through a Mrs. Doubtfire phase. Norbit […]
Nailed It
1. It is not cold outside. No one should be complaining about how cold they are when it’s 78 degrees unless you were born on the equator or in the earth's magma. 2. Why didn’t […]