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Do your teach (at any level)? Do your friends teach? If so, half of your Facebook feed probably consists of anecdotes from class, cute snipp...

I had one more beauty-post in me yet!

-Autumn is back at The Beheld, I'm back just at WWPD. That was an exciting guest-blogging stint, and I'm so grateful to Autumn for t...

Bringing glamor to the woods

Below, three recent or recent-ish things I bought but did not need: - Galaxy-print leggings . At long last! And $20! Which might seem like a...

"Bitches be crazy"

A while ago, I mentioned that Simon Rich had written one heck of a misogynistic humor essay for the New Yorker. The well-known problem wi...

Recent scientific findings

-Underage drinkers enjoy beer . -Otherwise lovely women were horrible people in middle school . -Ballerinas are pretty .

The case against "too-brilliant-to-bathe"

My guest-post at The Beheld on "too brilliant to bathe " was far more controversial than I'd imagined it would be, which is t...

Manhattan: because I'd never make it as a farmer

-New Brooklyn continues to represent aspirational farming by non-ethnic white people. On that front, we have Swedish Brooklyn obsession , a...

Today in judge-a-woman

I kind of loved Liz McDaniel's account of working as a temp at a bridal mag, just after being dumped by a fiancé. A darkly amusing prem...

Sigh

I think Instapundit did a close reading of my post about unpaid internships.

Intern-sectionality

Because the topic has interested me for so long, after writing about gender and unpaid internships for a wider audience , I did take a close...

Happy Valentine's Day?

-Do you have an engagement ring? Madeleine Davies of Jezebel probably  hates you , but you may be an exception, or maybe your ring isn't...

Bitter baristas, disgraced designers, and unpaid interns

-There exists a blog entirely made up of the nasty thoughts a barista (well, ex-barista ) has about his customers (seemingly written in rea...

The wedding not dreamed of since one was a little girl

On today's Savage Lovecast, Dan advises a mother (who's anonymous - this is not a post about parental-overshare) who thinks her 11-y...

On avocados, elsewhere

Autumn Whitefield-Madrano has kindly invited me to guest-blog at "The Beheld" ( here and here ) this week and next. WWPD is, as y...

14, 29

Tonight, Rufus Wainwright himself graced us, the rural 'burbs next to the famous university, with his presence. There was a very elderly...

SAHH

Slate has a story from a man who's a stay-at-home husband . Not dad, just husband. His now-wife got her PhD and (it can happen! though I...

"[W]hen the privacy at stake belongs to that writer’s teenage children, the equation is different"

To put parental overshare into perspective, it's useful to remember how we-as-a-society treat other forms of overshare. Such as: a gynec...

The thrill of the hunt

Sample sales. I grew up with them, and then, as an adult, basically lost track of them. Yes, it's possible to buy high-quality clothing ...

Philadelphia food guide-in-progress

Philadelphia holds certain entirely subjective advantages over New York. The former can be driven to in not much time, with no tolls, and wi...

Weekend excitement

From the newspaper : -The awfulness of Penn Station is difficult to convey, but Lawrence Downes has done a fine job of it . -One step forwar...

On writing something unlikely to infuriate mommy-bloggers

If WWPD is not enough of my ramblings, you can read more elsewhere . Whichever powers-that-be choose photos for such things happened to choo...

Thoughts of the morning-loosely-defined

-Ed Koch, whom I felt fondly towards (the first mayor I remember, and one with a striking physical resemblance - correct me if I'm wrong...