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...