Her brother who doesn’t communicate with the rest of the family despite also living in Portland, has become a school bus driver. His twentysomething daughter, my cousin, who I presume still lives at home, is […]
How did such a hot teen devolve so rapidly? I felt kind of dirty in my 20s being attracted to a sandy, toothy, crook-nosed kid. He was still doing it for me after he was […]
“We are seeing new players enter this market all the time and they bring a variety of new challenges. Pricing pressures as well as the danger of over assortment are just some of the challenges […]
This USA Today quiz that purports to guess your generation pissed me off (it doesn’t take much to get on my bad side) with its gaps. What show was popular when you were a teenager? […]
I’ve been reading fewer and fewer food blogs (is there anything worse than “food writing?”) and slightly more cultural, writerly blogs (which are annoying in different ways) and I’m struck by how distressingly smart, connected […]
My department is hiring, and it’s surprisingly hard to find someone library-ish who also has an ad/marketing background. (I especially wish I knew someone personally because I’d love the referral bonus.) 99% of the respondents […]
Occasionally, I'll step back from my own not terribly important problems and try to have empathy for others even when they don't need it. These are successful authors, after all. Yet, I've been noticing that […]
It’s hard to make the leap from jealousy/envy to understanding. I like the dismissive approach, but learning from others’ successes is the adult way to be. I knew if I waited long enough someone would […]
Yes, I realize having a twenty-year high school reunion this year officially makes me old. That’s not the issue, especially since I’m not attending it. People that are attending this event have adult children. Humans […]
I’ve started not using my ipod when walking around the neighborhood, primarily to and from the subway, but it definitely goes on once in the subway. I can only take so much yammering in such […]