Stomping My Ego: And Other Favorite Pastimes Of A Certain Bookstore Owner
The bookstore was an unchartered trove of literature, old and new. From classics to contemporary picks, books were piled on tables, filed in a maze of shelves, and stuffed into enough nooks and...
View ArticleValentine’s Day Book Giveaway!
This Valentine’s Day, cupid will load his bow with a signed copy of I Thought We Agreed to Pee in the Ocean and aim it at some lucky reader out there. The humor collection was called, “Fiercely...
View ArticleFinding Myself On Buzzfeed
We’ve learned so much in 2014. We learned that Russia has a city that sounds like the name of a blonde telepathic waitress and vampire lover. We learned that Patrick Stewart is gay, and then we...
View ArticleCut Down To Size
Happy New Year, cybersphere! I hope your last moments of 2014 were joyful. After I shot the champagne cork across the room and emptied half the bottle on the apartment floor (apparently I don’t know...
View ArticleThe Public Cupping
My husband and I just spent a week in Texas, and while the experience lived up to some of my expectations of the Lone Star state (delicious Tex-mex, awesome live music, and hordes of young...
View ArticleAre Doctors Just Sweet Talking Us?
Some women have terrible taste in men. I know– I used to be one of those women. Then I married a perfectly lovely man, and that must have thrown the universe off-balance. It’s since righted itself; I...
View ArticleGraduation Swan Song: An Ode to Long Island
After five years of yearning, hoping, praying, and begging, we are finally wiggling free from the acrylic-tipped grasp of Long Island. And as we gear up for our next adventure, this time in the north...
View ArticleWhy Tina Fey Should Be The New Face Of The Twenty-Dollar Bill
There are rumblings over Andrew Jackson’s impending termination as the face of our twenty-dollar bill, and I don’t blame America. I mean, as another Jackson so astutely questioned—what has he done for...
View ArticleThe Killer Lambs: And Other Norwegian Truths
When we arrived in Norway, nobody told us to beware of the sheep. The fjord region of Norway is a magical land; a combination of Ireland’s rolling green hills, Switzerland’s picturesque red houses,...
View ArticleWhy I Refuse To Get A Smartphone
At a bachelorette party earlier this year, I pulled out my mobile device: a hunk of a Verizon LG Cosmos slide dumb-phone with a two-inch display and a single megapixel camera. (Eat your heart out,...
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