It’s December 1! Which means…. That’s right, the grinch is back. To be clear: I love Christmas. I love spending time with my family & drinking hot chocolate by a roaring fire. This is something we will actually do – we will do this with snow falling outside. I love all the lights, and the…
Not too long ago, after my anxiety had a late-night brush with Esther Perel, I drove past a local community centre and saw a sign for an Italian-style sausage-making class. Ta-da! I love Z, I think we have a good marriage. I desire him, I’m curious about him, etc etc. (Let’s not go on too much,…
You know how I feel about luck. I believe in it; I see it. Of course, I believe in hard work too… But I really believe in luck. I worked somewhere where a quote was pinned to the wall: “Luck Favors the Prepared.” It was attributed to Eisenhower, but it’s actually a variation on a Louis…
Christmas shopping has begun. We are on a tight budget this year, which means we’ve cut back on just about all gifts but three. Everyone else will have to wait. Those three gifts, though? I am agonizing over them. I want them to be perfect. Which means I’ve spent hours researching… which means I’ve discovered…
Here are the 2008 Election Results: Here are the 2016 Election Results, to date: You probably know now that Donald Trump had 279 Electoral College votes, and 59,611,678 popular votes; Hillary Clinton had 228 Electoral College votes, and 59,814,018 popular votes. 270 Electoral College votes wins. Those numbers are tight, so the race was won…
Z and I aren’t avid gallery-goers, by any means. Some art I like, some I don’t. Some, quite frankly, I think is vastly overrated. But some? When you see something beautiful, it really is a treat for the eyes. The other night, we watched Sky Ladder, a Netflix documentary about Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang, who works…
The downside of not posting a weekly recap for months is that there are countless cute, funny stories I haven’t shared. That said, it also means I’ve had time to reflect on all of the stories I’ve read – and some over the past couple of months have been truly excellent. Here you go: Last…
The other day, I was talking to a couple of people about the second season of Narcos, which I really enjoyed. “Oh man”, this guy said. “What a personal brand Pablo Escobar had!” I thought the observation was curious – I mean, who watched Narcos and thought: “personal brand”? But the guy was a marketing-type,…
When I started dating Z, one of the things I liked best was how little he hedged. At first, it took me aback: if he didn’t like someone, he’d simply say: “I don’t like that guy.” or: “He’s a jerk.” So straightforward! There was no qualifying, no dancing around: “Well, you know, he’s probably a…
As you know, I loosely followed Anthony Weiner’s fall from grace. Z and I watched Weiner, the other night – a documentary about Weiner’s campaign to be the mayor of New York in 2013. We both knew a little about Anthony Weiner, beyond what we’d seen in the headlines. Despite his unfortunate sexting habit, Weiner…
