I have one skirt to my name. I mean, one normal-could-wear-it-to-the-park-without-looking-like-a-drag-queen skirt. I have lots of ridiculous skirts, because this is the way I shop. Black cotton that’s machine washable and goes with everything? Meh. Black net tutu covered in glitter? OH MY LOVE, I MUST PURCHASE YOU IMMEDIATELY. (This does come in handy when [...]
I’m plowing through The Gospel According to Coco Chanel because Nicole thrust it in my direction during our last work date and told me to read it. Since everything she tells me to do – “eat this cookie,” “try my homemade ravioli,” “watch Glee and drink two bottles of wine” - always turns out to be [...]
Are you reading this? (I assume you are, because if you weren’t, you would be receiving this information via magic or possibly alien transmission and that might frighten me a bit.) (Please don’t frighten me.) Are you on Twitter? If you are, I would like to follow you. (I know a bunch of you are out [...]
So maybe if I admit them to you, you can hold them for me for awhile and then hand them back when I’m stronger. Wait, is that not being self-sufficient? Why should I ask you to hold anything for me, when you’re probably holding quite enough already, thanks. And…this is how I end up cloistered [...]
It’s been a summer full of good things – hiking, sailing, getting kicked off Ocean Beach by the cops despite slyly burying my can of beer in the sand, letting a former Chanel model paw through my closet and take me shopping to rectify (rather major) wardrobe deficiencies, leading a friend from Australia on an [...]
Details tend to elude me. I forget things. Not just after they’ve happened but often while they’re happening. This is a glamorous and otherwordly skill, one that tends to annoy postal clerks. So I want to be better about recording Awesome Things before they pass into the dusty annals of memory, memory I can’t access [...]
My plan for Saturday was to go on a day trip – somewhere along the coast where I could walk on the beach and then stare at the sea and drink wine. If I was feeling really plucky, I could strike up a conversation with a stranger, one from which I would quickly retreat but [...]
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 [...]
I lost my job last week. Being me, this has set off a fresh batch of noisy lemurs in my head. Some are lolling about smoking pipes and making random gestures with their little paws, some are fighting rabidly, some are donning wire frame glasses and sharpening pencils. Mostly though, the lemurs are discussing if [...]
If you’ve been blogging for awhile and your organizational system resembles mine, you know the horrifying detritus that collects in the drafts folder. Mustering the courage to dive into the wormhole means wading through bits and pieces of your life, previously forgotten or deemed unsuitable for public consumption. Do you hit the delete key with [...]
