Realities to contend with

-Tavi Gevinson continues to create, impress. As well she should - WWPD is pro-Tavi. It does strike me as strange, though, that we are only ...

Eight hours in Strasbourg

Yesterday my husband and I brought a poodle to France. This was by far the most glamorous use of 37 euros - the cost of round-trip for two f...

The 'rents

Emma Koenig has an amusing, well-executed  blog . But you'd never know it from that Home and Garden section (?) profile , which can be s...

"[A] single variant – right-wing Zionism – has come to stand for the whole."

[M]ost Zionists use the term to describe not the expansionist desire to control the entire biblical land of Israel, but the more modest clai...

Equal-opportunity romance

Amber brings our attention  - and Dan Savage brought our attention - to a post  by Jos about why women who say they only date women or tran...

Acculturation fail

Today began with a vaguely Greek-looking man in front of my husband at a bakery having trouble ordering, and the person behind the counter a...

Price upon request

On one of yesterday's countless canine-walks, I was listening to an interview with Christopher Hayes, the author whose book on elites re...

Busybodies or gun control

-In light of the discussion below , it perhaps bears mentioning that the latest perpetrator-of-American-tragedy is 24, and so a child accord...

Woof

So, as you may have gathered, I'm across the Atlantic once again. Readers expecting vicarious 'I summer abroad' may be disappoin...

WWPD Guides: How to be exceptional

If you're a Jew looking to make a name for yourself in the field of writing about your experiences as a Jew, what you need to do is set ...

Off

I approached both of the recent articles -  Rachel Aviv 's in the New Yorker , and Scott Anderson 's in this week's NYT Magazine...

Grows on trees

It's now accepted wisdom that modern children's ignorance as to where their food comes from is something in desperate need of a rem...

On running shoes

Alice Waters wouldn't approve , but the wisest purchase I've made in a long time was a pair of... Nike sneakers . They're gorge...

In offensiveness today

-From Slate France, the unsurprising connections between far-right politics (in France and Germany) and the local-sustainable food movement...

Not under my roof

Parental support until age 18 and no later remains etched in cultural mythology, but fails to correctly describe expectations. The most obvi...

Pudel adventures

Today was (still is, it's early yet) market day. Bisou, who'd up till now received indifference and glares from locals just trying t...

A jet- and poodle-lagged pedagogy post

In Heidelberg with husband and poodle. So I have not kept up with the thread following this post , and I'm way behind on Sunday Styles a...

A question for David Brooks:

Isn't a meritocratic elite different from a hereditary elite, in that the leaders of today can't be assured that they'll be the...

WWPD Guides: not worrying about it (too much)

Whereas men tend to underestimate what's necessary for looking their best, we - women - will often realize that we've been worrying...

Reflection

This series that involves my calling out egregious examples of parental overshare leaves me a bit conflicted. Basically, I don't like th...

"Special privileges"

Calling Flavia , Flavia's commenter "i," and the usual WWPD audience: The following just appeared on my Facebook newsfeed: ...