February 2012
8 posts
January 2012
13 posts
No Great Illusion: What 20-Somethings Want →
You want a job, a vacation, heath insurance, validation, a back rub, a scalp massage at the place where you get your haircut, people who are jealous of you, an ex who won’t stop texting you when they’re drunk, Twitter followers, happiness maybe sorta, someone to buy you lunch at a fancy…
Unwritten Self-Help Books That Could Have Really...
Should You Break Into a Jog If Someone’s Holding a Door Open and You’re Still a Few Paces Away? A new book from the author of the international best-seller, How Long Should You Maintain Eye Contact When You’re Passing Someone You Know in a Long Hallway?
- Elizabeth Baird, The Hairpin
What Makes Me Feel Beautiful →
noraleah:
Beautifully touching essay by Anne Roiphe.
It was mid-December of 2005. I don’t know why he said it. I don’t know if a shadow had fallen across him, something appalling he saw out of the corner of his eye. I don’t know if it was just coincidence or intuition that prompted him, but about a week before my seemingly healthy 82-year-old husband suddenly died, he emerged from the kitchen...
December 2011
23 posts
Watchtinsely:
The Five Year Engagement
“It’s in my Jewish drawer…”
I can’t.
I’ll take it.
notwithstanding the foregoing: the "war" on... →
turnabout:
The goofy “Today’s Professionals” on the Today show said their least favorite thing about the holidays is not being able to say Merry Christmas because it’s insensitive and they’d just rather say it because they don’t know what Happy Holidays means anymore and they know who their Jewish friends…
THIS. THANK YOU.
November 2011
31 posts
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