Yesterday, I stood in front of a closet full of cute dresses and killer shoes and ladylike scarves and grown-up trouser pants, and I gave up. Without remorse, I went straight to the laundry basket of folded clothes from two weeks ago and dug out a favorite grey tank from the Gap, a matching grey [...]
Forever XXI is a valentine to my poor lonely fashion hungry soul. It’s cheap, and at times- okay, often- tacky. And it’s really best, I’ve found, to preemptively cut the buttons off and sew them back on before wearing. And probably opt out on using the dryer. And count it a true fashion miracle to [...]
Some girls quietly giggle to an acquaintance on the el. Their hair, shiny, long, and luxe, if slightly tipsy. Their two carat emerald and princess cut rings, beacons in the dark winter night, mocking. Some girls organize “girls nights,” then talk only of their travels to Ireland with newlywed husbands, calling it a night abruptly [...]
The first funerals took place yesterday, with more scheduled for today and tomorrow, and a campus-wide memorial service scheduled for Sunday in the Convocation Center- the very place I crossed the stage to receive my master’s degree four years ago.Yes, I’m an alumni. Still, I’ve been uncertain about whether to write anything. Maybe I’m no [...]
Throw out the bride magazine. You’re not getting married. You’re not planning a wedding. Go into the living room, dig it out from under the stack of Vogues, and toss the damn thing into the trash. NOW. Somewhere over the last few months as I’ve helped friends plan their weddings I’ve picked up a few [...]
American Idol is good bad TV. It’s a juggernaut (I love that I just got to use that word), so there’s really no escaping it. And really, why would you want to when it provides such a great learning opportunity, and (I suspect in addition to our current foreign policy) one of the several reasons [...]
Tomorrow is Valentine’s Day; a particularly rancorous time of year for Kit and I. Five years of off/ on yo-yoing has shown this quite clearly. Maybe it’s due to the lack of sunlight, the surplus of single digit weather, or the looming tax season. Whichever it may be, our tendency is to break up a [...]
