Post, post, post-graduate work
Dear Professor Feingold:
I hope this letter finds you well and that you are enjoying your retirement. You aren’t going to remember me, but I was in one of your English literature classes in 1998. Yes, […]
No ordinary enjoyment
I was born in Pennsylvania, a place where potato chips are a food group of their own. We could count on just about any store worth its salt carrying chips; some where thick-cut, some were […]
The Most Delicious of All Deliciousness
I grew up on the East Coast, so I grew up eating steamed crabs. Blue crabs in particular (which turn orange when steamed) are the best crabs there are…but it can be difficult to convince […]
Lessons Learned
This year, I learned to make love. I realize that’s an odd thing to hear from the owner of a website devoted to all things sexy and romantic, so I’ll allay your fears by telling […]
Body Type A
When it comes to jeans, everyone has fit issues…or so I discovered in a highly unscientific pool of people I know. My size 0 personal trainer revealed that most jeans cut across her “fat place” […]
Smile and Keep Moving
Truth and tact is a tricky one. I’m not a fan of telling everything I know. However, there are those amongst us who live for prying open Pandora’s Box with a tire iron and will […]
A Grave Matter
It took me almost 25 years to go visit my grandfather’s grave. Being neither religiously inclined nor a cemetery visitor, I say goodbye to people I love and remember them in my heart. But […]
We Had Everything, and Nothing
I got out and walked back toward the sleek mass of metal and money. The problem was obvious soon enough—the left rear tire was flat. Actually, it was nearly shredded. You get that sometimes; sharp […]
Impatience Speed Trap
I had a boyfriend once whose mother, when she was charmed by his bad behavior, would roll her eyes and tell me how patient I was. But he was not my boyfriend for very long, […]
How do You Find Patience When you Don’t Love Escorting?
First, you have to be interested enough to spend the time. This is true if any endeavor that pays back joy for discipline: drawing, playing guitar, taking pictures, dancing, singing, tennis, gardening. It has to […]
Chocolate: More Than a Sweet Nothing?
Chocolate is my kryptonite…well, I have to stop thinking about it as kryptonite. No one is about to give me license to carry a feed bag of M&Ms around my neck, but I’ve read lately […]
What is Intelligence?
Academics have for over 100 years measured intelligence using IQ tests, but the Flynn Effect they’ve found doesn’t necessarily mean we are more intelligent than our grandparents. We may just be better at taking tests.
Aptitude […]
The Joy of Being Rotten
Just got dumped? Here are some ideas
—Send a stripper-gram to their next board meeting
—Order the most expensive bottle of champagne and meal at the last dinner you have together
—Fill their shampoo bottle with hair bleach
—Pledge […]
Old School is the Real Big Deal
There was a time not so long ago when the moviegoing experience was a big deal. It was an event. Viewers entered ornate, cavernous movie palaces and watched, along with an audience of thousands, the […]
No Thanks, Private Schools
In the upper-middle-class California suburban family of my youth, we applied to the universities we could afford, and went to the best one that sent an acceptance letter. It would never have occurred to me […]
Snake Bitten
I found myself thinking about regret as I sat down to write this week. There are two sides to our thought process: logic and emotion. Some people use one more than the other but most […]
