Kristin and Scott recently pledged their troth in a lovely, tear-tugging ceremony with strewn petals and hair drifting cinematically across porcelain foreheads. It was eloquent and heartfelt and everything a wedding should be. At least until The Incident. When fate and a cozy venue made a dastardly pact that put me, my elbows, and the [...]
Kids are fun. I’d totally forgotten this basic yet elusive fact, a grievous lapse for which you must forgive me, mainly because the only kids I routinely see are the ones on my computer screen. You may have noticed that children on your computer screen don’t move much and stay eerily silent. They don’t tap [...]
I’m loving my neighborhood these days. Eight months ago I was planning to move into a bigger place where I could get a dog. Three months ago I was planning to move to whatever hovel in Chinatown would save me the most money. But I wasn’t finding anything that felt right (hovels rarely do) and [...]
I used to dread talking to people. Walking up to someone, even someone like a waitress, who is literally paid not only speak to me but to bring me things, would turn me into a quivering, gelatinous mass of cowardly dysfunction. Given the number of people I walked up to and threw my arms around [...]
I love having people over for dinner. Love it. In fact, I wish you all lived within geographical spitting distance so I could invite you over for latkes and pork sausage – which, incidentally, is what I served Kristin and Scott when they were here on Tuesday night. They were very gracious about how long [...]
You’d think an unabashed nerd such as myself would rock the pub trivia, but alas, it is not so. That I would tank on current affairs was a given (apparently a woman in Brazil was expelled from school for wearing a pink mini-skirt, not for founding a brothel for poodles as I erroneously suggested) (also, [...]
Nothing says Bacchanalian Fete like feeling the space between the hammock where you’re gently rocking and the ground below abruptly disappear. And nothing cushions the blow to your spine better than several glasses of red wine. Please note the culprit preparing to flee as Emily and I gather our scattered wits. Manda would later claim [...]
There are few things I like better than getting on a plane and going somewhere with sea, sand, and girl-on-girl action. LUCKY ME: (Photo thanks to Leah.) Yes, that’s Jemima planting one on Leah, much to onlookers’ delight. (And my favorite camel is planting one on me.) (It was that kind of a day.) Spending [...]
I used to think showing emotion in public was akin to stripping off my bra and whirling it three times over my head to better wrap it around an innocent chandelier. The chandelier I would then swing from by my knees. But I’m getting sappy in my fourth decade. My sarcasm gene squeaks in undignified [...]
I’m a very loyal person. When I was a junior in high school, I turned down a date for prom because I thought a friend wanted to go with him. (She didn’t.) (Oops.) I find a brand of chocolate chips I like and buy them until the company goes out of business – then I [...]
