Better Than A Staycation
There’s still plenty of time to plan a summer vacation. And no need to get hung up on beaches versus mountains because I just found a list of “Top US Hypertension Hot Spots.” Now the […]
Nailing It
I know that somewhere at some point I catalogued the many perfectly mundane things that people do that I haven’t. I can’t remember everything, but do know that yoga, getting a spa treatment/massage, changing a […]
An Ever-Expanding Chasm
Discovering that the universe (at least on Twitter) is passionate about the serial comma (I’ve never used it for no reason in particular) is like when I realized that all women pay to get their […]
Older Men Plan the Best Dates
Several months ago, my friend Anna called to complain about her boyfriend of eight months. Bombarded by media warnings about the female biological clock, he wanted to make sure that Anna was fit for childbearing […]
Ok, Now You Can Call It Summer
So, I did it. I bought a namesake shoe, the one I was talking about two years ago. Yes, I’m still tickled by products bearing my name. And apparently slow to making purchase decisions. I’m […]
Take a Picture, It’ll Last Longer
So far I’ve managed to stave of one scourge of advancing age: an interest in genealogy, the bane of librarians everywhere. I don’t have a family, on either side, that shares lots of lore or […]
Girl Blogger Voice
I’m still not hating xoJane even though I think I’m supposed to. I really do think it’s a generational thing, even though I wish it wasn’t. Despite my developing morbid obsession with aging and attempts […]
I <3 Trolls
True confessions: only recently did I figure out what <3 meant. That symbol has confounded me since the day I first saw it who knows when. Love? I always thought it looked like testicles and […]
What Did You Receive For Graduation?
“With the interest rate and the price that we found…we couldn’t not do it.”–Who couldn’t not spend a quarter of a million dollars on a graduation gift? If it makes you feel better, imagine […]
The Middle Ages: Not 41
To the two people in two days (yes, two—one from San Francisco and another from Taunton, which is apparently somewhere in the UK) who got here searching is 41 middle aged no it’s not. Seriously, […]