Being a parent is not nearly as hard as all those mommy blogs make it out to be.
Being a parent is not nearly as hard as all those mommy blogs make it out to be.
It was my father who instilled in me that any man worth his salt must carry a few items at all times: a watch, a handkerchief, and a good knife. He forced a wristwatch upon me when I was a senior in high school and interning at The Philadelphia Daily News, saying I needed to …
Vanity plates: The tramp stamp of the road
True to my English teacher persona, I live in cardigans for half the year. I’ve got an entire dresser drawer dedicated to them, probably a dozen in all. I like the chunky, scratchy wool ones best, but they tend to be, well, scratchy. So I’ve got a good collection of cotton ones too that I …
Being a bartender would be great if it wasn’t for the customers
I learned sometime during elementary school there’s nothing more uncomfortable than having red, crusty lips. How people can walk around chapped like that is beyond me. I’ve been carrying lip balm ever since. At first, I felt like I must be misremembering that, because what 8-year-old carries around lip balm? But then a memory floated …
$13.60 per 3-pack from Amazon Anyone who’s ever met me knows I don’t leave the house without my notebook. It’s something I started doing when I was the manager of the guitar shop to track my daily to-do lists, but over the years it’s morphed into an obsessive routine. Now, in addition to capturing grocery …
One of my favorite features in New York Magazine is this series called “Things I Can’t Live Without.” Each week, a celebrity writes a shopping list of his favorite little amenities. The whole premise of the feature is that these celebrities aren’t showing off their t-shirts with six-figure price tags or their favorite Pollack that …
I Don't Belong Here. 