I admit, I can’t stand New Year’s Eve - a full night of mandatory overhyped feting in which everyone dresses uncomfortably, hemorrhages cash and marinates their craniums in alcohol all to attain some socially-required level of enjoyment. But I do respect the tradition of reflecting on the previous year’s events, encouraging contemplation is never a […]
Archive for December, 2005
Friday, December 30th, 2005
Tuesday, December 20th, 2005
To the thirtysomething blonde woman I met standing on the corner this morning, your chapped face gradually turning purple in the polar wind after spending over 2 hours sojourning from Jersey to the Bronx to get to work caring for physically disabled children, I salute you.
To the twentysomething lawyer churlishly shoving her aside to hail […]
Sunday, December 4th, 2005
A generic bar on an arctic Saturday night, and what appears to be two brunettes sipping vodka tonics at a remote table is actually a scene of reconciliation. I’m sitting with R, a childhood friend blessed with the rare ability to recall my adolescent self, piles of stringy waist-length hair perpetually falling in my face […]
Friday, December 2nd, 2005
“So Boyfriend is panicking. Completely freaking out. It’s blatantly obvious.”
I’m sitting at dinner with S, a longtime friend and confidante, spilling my anxiety in a pool on the table while devouring bites of lobster gnocchi.
“What, about the move?”
“Not just the move, all of it. Living together, commitment, what it ‘means’ in the future. Everything. […]