Touch and Be Touched
Back to Magazines at the Gym. This weekend a friend asked if you're supposed to tell someone you're casually sleeping with in a state not touching the continental US if you have HPV. And guess […]
The Middle Ages: 45-65
I think I just realized why all this middle-aged in your 30s nonsense bothers me so much. Ostensibly, I work in marketing now, and demographic lines must be drawn. Sure, there's squabbling between generational cutoffs […]
Mock Tales
There is a line of Crystal Light flavors based on cocktails ladies love like mojitos, pomtinis (I guess that's a thing?), and bellinis. And, there is an ad in either Family Circle or Good Housekeeping […]
Magazines at the Gym
I'm still not sure where I stand on the gray hair issue (ha, such an important world issue). I've never been able to go for it fully (though once again, I'm muddling it over–that was […]
Of a Certain Age
I wasn't one of those Sassy or subsequent Jane fanatics. Sure, I read the magazines now and then, but I wouldn't say they changed my life or that I even knew the editors and writers […]
How to Look Alluring
Even though the April edition of Allure I naively picked up at the gym (not realizing it was an age-focused issue) said dark hair ages you, I still dyed my hair black because I want […]
St. Patty’s Day
I was called "Patty" in a phone training session (who knew there were so many things to learn about a new phone system?) yesterday at work by the man sent from the phone company and […]
House of Horrors
I assumed The Awl’s headling “The Horrific Horror of Brooklyn” referred to a not-wholly-about-Brooklyn real estate article I read in the Times last night, but they were referring to the other horrific horror (face it, […]
Is It Normal?
I don't know if it's something Oprah actually said because I've never faithfully watched her show, but I recall years ago when she was in a slender phase that she said something along the lines […]
The Middle Ages: 34
“With middle-aged women, it gets easier to put it on and harder to take it off.” Sucks to be Betty Draper. All she wants is diet pills to lose her Bugles-and-hot-fudge-sundae-induced double chin and instead […]