I was on a plane to Phoenix yesterday, reading magazines because if we had turned on our iPads to do any 21st-century-method reading we might have brought the whole plane down in a fiery crash – and no one wanted that, not even the guy sitting next to the 14-month-old with a head cold – […]
Busted by a Mannequin
Thanks to my friend Lynn, who sent me a link to this story, my relationship with mannequins is completely deteriorated. If you’re too lazy to click on the link (or if you’re worried that going there will make you realize there are more interesting things on MSN.com than here on my blog) allow me […]
If My Dog Were a Person
She would be a thumb sucker and have a pacifier and chew gum and chew on her pencils and smoke. And snuff wouldn’t surprise me either. She’s the most orally fixated dog ever. On walks, she picks up things and rolls them around in her mouth until she sees something more disgusting and then […]
Resolution 2013: Get Happy Via Charts and Lists
I am not a fan of self-help books. I can be walking through a book store, feeling really good about life because of all the books that are in the world, fighting off a slight panic that I may not have time to read all of them, but still very positive about things in […]
Flying Turns Me Into a Second Grader
A recent trip to New York required that I fly commercial, in coach. Which means that for 2.75 hours, I was back to being in elementary school. Flying on an airplane turns everyone into a second grader. I’m not ancient and I’m not terribly sophisticated, but even I’m embarrassed at the way I sit […]
Not Fringe, Just Famous
I’m not a big rocker and I don’t fawn over stars – I look for a table where I can sip wine at a rock concert and I almost literally tripped over Bernie Mac before I recognized him on South Beach – but it occurred to me last weekend that in order to be […]