Jobs Are For Quitters
Sometimes real life can be scary. And I don’t mean that in a Rob-Lowe-as-Drew-Peterson-in-a-Lifetime-Movie way. But more like making adult decisions and life altering choices can sometimes make you want to curl up under your blankets and use your confusing health insurance forms to make therapeutic origami. This month I had to make a big decision that affected...
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Should I Skip My Birthday This Year
Despite the fact that I have a blog that’s all about myself, I’m generally pretty modest. You won’t see me strutting around Central Park handing out “I’m a blogger” business cards or showing off my constantly updated Twitter followers tattoo. And that’s why my yearly birthday (yeah I have one a year, you?) is a blessing disguised in a curse hidden...
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Could I Be More Cultured?
I live in New York City which means I’m supposed to be one of the most cultured, savvy and chic human beings alive. On a good day, my shirt’s not wrinkled and my fingernails are filed. So I’m not exactly in the running yet to be New Yorker of the Year (although rumor has it the winner gets to run a hot dog stand in Central Park for an entire summer…talk...
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My 7 New Year’s Resolutions
So I had this crazy idea last night to come up with a list of things I’d like to change about myself for the new year. It’s just kinda one of those ideas you have before you’re falling asleep that almost makes sense. Let’s call them “res-o-lut-ions” or resos for short. (more…)
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Isn’t Winter Just the Worst?
Somehow I manage to black out winter every single year. Or maybe not black out, but nostalgia-ize the season. I remember the twinkling Christmas decorations and the warmth of new sweaters and the feeling of watching fresh snow fall while I sip hot chocolate next to an ice skating rink. (more…)
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My Very First Santacon
The entire idea of Santacon disgusts me. Grown people wearing costumes in the daylight. People yell-singing Christmas songs like they’re middle-aged people at a Bon Jovi concert. Having to remove a one piece Santa costume every time you have to pee. Nothing about it sounds appealing and that’s why I spent all last year huddled up in my apartment...
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I Was So Trendy For a Hot Sec
When I first moved to New York, back in the early 70s, I was very concerned about being at the right places with the right people at the right time. Two days in, I realized I would never be the person at the right places with the right people at the right time. Especially at that time in my life. Unemployed college grads living with their grandparents aren’t...
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I’m Thankful That I Have the Will to Survive
There’s nothing like finding out that your family is supportive of your ridiculous endeavors. It makes you feel all warm and fuzzy inside and all like “bet you regret saying those horrible things about my lanky body on home video when I was just an infant.” Except of course when those endeavors involve a personal blog that occasionally shares...
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I’m in the Market for a New Home Office
I never appreciated living in Florida until I moved to Syracuse to go to college. There’s nothing quite like 120 straight days of snowfall to make you appreciate living in a place where 60 degrees is considered chilly and partly sunny is considered absolute “cancel all our plans and hunker down in the storm shelter” weather disaster. Suddenly...
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My Two Different Lives
I live two lives in New York. One is full of open bar work events and all-day Sunday brunches and air kissing old acquaint-enemies on the street when I run into them. In this life I wear shirts without wrinkles and jeans without holes in the crotch. And the other life? Well the other life is much more Cincinnati than Manhattan. That’s the life where...
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