Is email dead?
According to my 13-year-old daughter, nobody emails anymore. If you want to communicate, you do it via text, Facebook, or Twitter. Thing is — even though it probably makes zero sense — I feel safer using email to discuss something personal, as opposed to private messaging on Facebook. (Yes, I am aware there’s no such [...]
Squeamish house painter finds help online
I’m thinking hard about what colors to paint my living room, dining room, and hallway. I’ve already made three trips to the Home Depot and brought home a fistful of swatches, not to mention samples of three kick-ass shades of orange I’ve sadly concluded will require the purchase of new furniture. Good thing I stumbled [...]
Is travel a big waste of time?
Until this morning, it never occurred to me that it could be. I developed a love for travel when I was very young. I had the good fortune to have an aunt, a teacher, who took me away with her on Christmas and Easter vacations, and we went to Venezuela and California and the Caribbean and Washington, DC. [...]
Are pregnant women smug?
Riki Lindhome and Kate Micucci, otherwise known as Garfunkel and Oates, think pregnant women are smug, and they wrote a little song to express their feelings. I have some thoughts on this. I’ve been pregnant twice, and both times I was too freaked out to luxuriate in smugness. What was I freaked out about? Birth [...]
About that Michelle and Carla catfight…
Well, it didn’t happen, did it? But if we believed the tripe in the mainstream media last week, First Ladies Michelle Obama and Carla Bruni were fated to clash in a “fashion face-off” (as if neither one of them had anything else to occupy her tiny mind than pretty clothes). And, then when it turned [...]
How to be a friend when a friend’s gotten a pink slip
While on a cruise last month, I met a series of people who’d just been laid off (they’d paid for the vacation, and then BOOM!). It seems everywhere I go, I meet someone who’s been laid off. And I want to say the right thing. You see, I know firsthand the importance of saying the [...]
