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knot so much
While life hands all of us an ongoing series of knotty issues and tangled messes, I appear to have taken the concept to a new level (a dubious distinction). Some mildly embarrassing examples, slapstick knot-withstanding: The hooded pullover sweatshirt. No matter how I try (arms first, head first, whatever), I still manage to get lost in the garment […]
lower the cone of silence
For those who remember Get Smart from the 1960s, you’re familiar with the Cone of Silence. For those who who think the Cone of Silence is a new flavor at Baskin Robbins, let me fill you in. In the sitcom, CONTROL secret agents were the good guys and KAOS the bad. The Cone of Silence was a […]
i’ll be where?
Life is full of irony. Like the one time you get to the airport early and your flight is cancelled. Or when you spend hours preparing a gourmet meal only to find your guests are in the midst of a juice cleanse. Or when you cut your hair and sell it to buy your husband […]
not a pretty picture
Don’t you hate it when you’re in a store and there’s a child throwing a tantrum? And by “child” I don’t literally mean a kid — I mean a salesperson who is just so rude that you have to fight the urge to send them to their room to think about what they’ve done. Case […]
lucy bakes a cake
While there are those who believe that you can “have your cake and eat it too,” my recent chocolate-cake-baking experience reminds me that the having part isn’t always as easy as it looks. To wit: as I’ve mentioned in a previous post, my friend G.’s chocolate cake is a thing of sublime yum. Two layers of just-right […]
funny business
Watching the news these days is not easy; in fact, it vacillates between grim, grimmer, and, oh my God, should we be on the lookout for those Four Horsemen? While nothing can make it all better, there is one thing that, at least for me, helps (okay, two, if you count my friend G.’s amazing chocolate […]
laugh. until you cry.
When Robin Williams left us earlier this week, it felt like being hit with a sucker punch to the gut. The man who could make millions of us laugh so hard that we cried exited stage right, but this time with no comic relief. Only tears. And the unanswerable “why?” To use the word “irony” here seems hopelessly […]
talk of the town
Growing up in New York, it always seemed like there was very little difference between the Jewish and Italian cultures. Both are warm and family-oriented. Both show their love through food. And both are passionate about life. I say knish, you say cannoli — I say delish, you say I’ll take a dozen. These similarities made me […]
two from the heart
He was shy. She was not. She was poor. He was poorer. He was Giants. She was Yankees. He loved the movies. She loved him. She adored Sinatra. He adored her. He gave a mutual friend a Mel Ott baseball card in exchange for introducing him to her. She went on a first date with him because her […]
on the road (again)
So here we are, on the verge of another of our signature summer vacations — the great, and greatly underrated, road trip. Over several years of hitting the road for destinations as varied as Utah (five national parks, one really mean case of stomach flu); the Oregon coast; and Taos, New Mexico (including a run-in […]
rice on your head 