Report from the woods

Mooching, legitimately, off some Ivy wireless. Still none of that at home, although it turns out I miss hot water much more. For the obvious...

"And I was like, ‘No, no, no—it’s for my skin.’"

There is something kinda bleak about a profile of an immensely successful, impressive, talented young woman that tells us not how she got w...

"Luxury"

Gawker and I are, amazingly, in sincere agreement: young children brutally murdered by, it seems, the babysitter is the story. Not how fanc...

A safe space

Amherst is evidently one of several elite colleges incapable of properly dealing with sexual violence. Going by what I've read and my o...

About those napping Greek islanders

Well good for them . Olive oil, sure, wine, why not, longevity, OK. No goats'-milk for me, thanks unless it's been turned into a che...

CEO position, transportation stipend available

Just got a list email about what sounds like a pretty cool, if not super-glamorous, job, "with a preference to graduate students and re...

Old age is...

...when you go to the student health center for your annual "well woman" checkup, and they don't ask you about your lifestyle....

Highly recommended

Because WWPD is not a forum to discuss grad-student angst - and the grad students are angsty! - I will instead make some beautification reco...

Assorted injustices

-I'm not alone in protesting YPIS . I skimmed this on the train, but will need to investigate further. -Rachel Hills continues to be fab...

WWPD, honorary Belgian

Back from a whirlwind trip to Belgium for my brother-in-law's lovely wedding. I traded roadside deer for roadside (but penned-in) cows a...

Still against "holistic"

To new readers, to readers not as tuned into the inner workings of my mind as I am: When I say I'm not a fan of "holistic" in...

The tristate area

Cropped for emphasis. The "are you Jewish" set were way off their game that day, going right past me twice  and asking the questio...

Model-turned-actress vs. actress-turned-model

-Into the Gloss remains an infinite source of pedicured-foot-in-mouth. The latest, Erin Wasson , is no exception. There's of course the...

Are you being served?

-The tipping wars have been rekindled , with a horde of commenters furious at a stingy blogger who had the gall to confess to only tipping ...

WWPD elsewhere

Want to know where Woody Allen meets fashion-bloggery? Click here .  This is most exciting, both because it's been ages since I've g...

"Orders which must be obeyed"*

The best article ever: Kate Connolly of the Guardian reports on a coffee shop in Berlin that has banned, among other things, strollers: Ral...

Facebook over-over-analyzed

-A Twitter correspondant of a writer I met on the Internet before in person (how's that for bloggy?) interpreted my post about Facebook...

The neurosis Facebook invented

Emily "Prudence" Yoffe (and bear with me even if you're not a Prudie fan, this is merely the point of departure) recently got ...

Own-damn-self

One of my favorite bloggers has returned for a moment, to express her dislike of the phenomenon of women posting a photo of their kid - not...

WWPD Guides: Beauty tips for the inept

Recently, I found that I'd developed the skin of, shall we say, a middle-school student. This is an area I'd been lucky in, for the ...

New York City, 2012

-A missing-person sign up in and around Penn Station indicates that the young man "is not wearing a yarmulke." -One Facebook frien...

Whaddya get?

Miss Self-Important has included me in the category of " everyone who's anyone ," which is flattering. But she's also incl...

From the dept. of plus ça change

A "Dick Van Dyke Show" episode from 1962 revolves around the recent publication, in a highbrow general-interest mag, of an articl...

Circular

I mean, why wouldn't one purchase a self-help book from someone who got $1 million  or more to write one? Random Lena Dunham question: m...

With age, the freedom to frown

Today I have: sat next to the smelliest person ever to sit in the NJ Transit quiet car; heard a slender female passerby of a certain age tel...