Wednesday, December 31, 2008
I realized this holiday that apparently my secret shameful food snobbery was out when friends and relatives gave me some Himalayan pink salt, Nepali Birae Noon (black salt from India) and a jar containing two especially evil looking truffles, imported from France. Sure, I am a culinary tourist and plan my vacations around dinner reservations […]
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
I kind of hate this time of year. Not the winddown of the holiday madness… that’s actually kind of a relief. No, it’s the weirdness about New Year’s Eve. I really hate the idea of New Year’s Resolutions. In my opinion, if there’s something about yourself that you want to change, you freaking change it. […]
Monday, December 29, 2008
One of the annoying things about living in a place where there is winter is that the farmer’s markets disappear at the sight of the first snowflake, along with all of those great vendors and their organic produce, free-range chickens and amazing artisan foods. I mean, I live in the freaking DAIRY STATE, but a […]
Monday, December 29, 2008
We rescued a kitten. Sort of on accident. You see, I didn’t want to rescue a kitten. Kittens are cute. Kittens are easy sells. Everyone wants kittens. But the people on PetFinder, I learned, are kind of free with their definition of “baby” and “young” animals. I saw animals listed as “baby” who were, if […]
Sunday, December 28, 2008
We love to play the “grass is always greener” game when staring at other women. We imagine that the willowy size four must be perfectly content with her body and never get caught in the trap of body self-hatred, but a study in England has found that as a group, women who are U.K. size […]
Wednesday, December 24, 2008
One of my favorite memories of Christmas Eve was my sister and I blowing through a gigantic pack of colored construction paper. I cut long strips out of green and red sheets and then together we used Elmer’s glue to construct a seventy-five foot paper chain. I still remember our glee when we realized that […]
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Sometimes, I have fugue fantasies. I randomly pick a city on Craigslist and start looking for apartments. It’s a stupid reaction and I can always tell that things have gotten overly stressful, that something is so blessedly and wholeheartedly wrong with my life that there’s a big giant alarm going off with a spinning red […]
Friday, December 12, 2008
We’ve regularly discussed the lack of decent plus-size clothing in the fashion world, but why is that? One customer service person at Macy’s told a shopper that the store didn’t carry plus-size upscale clothing because their upscale clientele was thin, and if she wanted upscale plus-size clothes, she should go to a Macy’s in another […]
