Ironing
Today, I tackled my own ironing. Not much these days, but though it’s an infrequent chore I still put it off to the dry cleaner or housekeeper as much as possible. Once started I got [...]
The Gift of Meditation
Intelligence isn’t equal to development; intelligence has to be developed. Just because you’re smart doesn’t automatically make you a perfect or even brilliant human being. Intelligence is a potential, a capacity, and that capacity need [...]
Nerds Rule
Nerd culture; what does it mean to self-identify as a nerd? What I’m about to write is half lighthearted frivolity and half serious…but really, what are the legitimate descriptors of a true nerd? Everyone can [...]
Political Car Sickness
If you’re, like me, one of the people who ingests news with your morning coffee (or reads those banner headlines that pop up on your phone a hundred or so times a day), you too—whatever [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
