"How could anybody not like you?" - Helen Seinfeld

At the intersection of parental overshare and the window-of-opportunity problem: the Princeton University mom who wrote a letter to a Pri...

"Young and impulsive"

Caryatis pointed me to this (relatively tame)  Savage Love letter , from a 28-year-old man with a 28-year-old husband he'd been with si...

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...

Once more, in bold

Miss Self-Important responds , helps me clarify what I was trying to get at in the post below . And hello also new readers via Scott Lemieux...

The universal and particular in "Tiny Furniture"

Every so often, some piece of entertainment comes along that so resembles my own biography that I have trouble judging how it might be recei...

The no time for a boyfriend brigade

Hanna Rosin's Atlantic story about how the hook-up culture benefits - and is perpetuated by - young women is kind of great. Finally, so...

United in studiousness and lactose intolerance

-As someone who both is intermarried and studies intermarriage ( the backstory ), I read with interest this account of a couple, Helen Kim ...

Another 15 minutes for WWPD

I just had the somewhat surreal and entirely narcissistic experience of listening to a podcast (well, Bloggingheads ) while walking Bisou th...

The talk, the walk

Says David Brooks : "People in the educated class talk like social progressives and behave like traditionalists." One hears variat...