"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...

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...

The NYT endorses your cappuccino habit

As you certainly know , I believe you should drink as many lattes as you can stomach. More accurately: I find cheapness-advice that urges yo...

Insufficiently-critical shopper

Oh happy day, Princeton now has an Urban Outfitters. A sentence like this needs context: until the arrival of said Outfitters, if you wanted...

Brands of nonsense

Black Friday. You wouldn't join a stampede for a flat-screen TV, right? If you're reading this, if you're someone I know on-blog...

In defense of: bus riders

Am I missing something? Or wouldn't it seem that people who take the bus because they don't have/drive a car are overall travelling ...

13.1

We have already discussed at great length , here at WWPD, the overlap between Hurricane Sandy and YPIS. More specifically, the almost inst...

Let them eat genetically-modified cake

So California won't be labeling its GMOs . I've been slightly following this, and it's a funny issue. On the one hand, those aga...

In defense of: complaining about inconvenience

With the storm, there's been this immense outpouring of gratitude. Everyone on Facebook (my main contact with the outside world) is incr...

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 ...

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 defense of garish

Makeup is an implement of the patriarchy if you're 13, a necessity for a woman give or take a decade older. To the Prudie letter-write...

A view from the provinces

-Bisou-walk podcast of the morning: Leonard Lopate on the NYU expansion plan. Not entirely the show's fault that there was no pro-plan g...

"Pluck your own chickens."

Via Nick Troester , I see that Megan McArdle and I are on the same page when it comes to kitchen gadgets. I also now see that McArdle ca...

In defense of mannequins

As I've mentioned on this blog before, it's eerie, if you stop and think about it, that in this day and age, there's a professio...