Indecision 2008

My walls are beginning to look like a Rothko painting. I have been dousing my kitchen with paint sample after paint sample for the past – this is embarrassing – eight months trying to find colors that go with the quasi palette we have going on already that also brighten up a room with only [...]

Do Those Mittens Come in Silk?

Can someone please tell me what I’m supposed to wear to an outdoor wedding in October in New England? I was walking my dog around the block this morning in jeans, a long-sleeved shirt and a hooded sweatshirt, and after 15 minutes, I was colder than the bottle of sparkling wine I forgot about in [...]

I Feel Bad about My Bag and Other Things

This is the purse I bought in New Hampshire two weeks ago while taking a break from NASCAR to indulge in some sales-tax-free retail therapy. The only problem: I have serious spender’s guilt. Which is why the tags are still on. So the therapy is making me need more therapy. It’s a Francesco Biasia, which [...]

Penis Envy

After watching a single episode of Gossip Girl (and becoming insanely addicted, despite my usual general hatred of most TV), I have become obsessed with the fact that Serena, played by Blake Lively, looks a lot like my sister.
“Oh my God, she looks just like Kara!” I yelled.
No response.
“Ryan, look!”
“Yeah,” he said.
“Don’t you think she [...]

Park Slope Moms of Another Sort

I’ve always hated the kind of proud, fussy parents that lose a chunk of their identity when baby number-one pops out. I know that’s not fair to say. Really, they’ve just shifted priorities and talk about what’s important to them. And since kids tend to take over your life, well, what else is there to [...]