True to form, my body has chosen the first beautiful days of the year to become a hacking, wilted docking station for every germ in Manhattan. So much for Boyfriend’s horse pill vitamins that claim to steel your immune system - I may as well have licked a subway pole and swallowed a bowl of […]

Call this a copout post if you wish, but I get a lot of solicitations for Manhattan info. Where to go, what to see, where to eat, where to get shitfaced and stumble into the street belting Human League lyrics. True, there are about 7 million internet sites offering information of this kind, but none […]

Many thanks for the two-day outpouring of support from readers across the globe. I didn’t mean to imply from the last post that the positive responses haven’t been equal to, or even greater than the criticism. I’ve heard enough remarkable and inspiring words and stories in the past twelve months to fill an encyclopedia, and […]

I’ve learned a lot from maintaining a blog over the past year. Nothing can get you out of your own head and expose you to other perspectives more than displaying your innermost thoughts on the internet. People from different countries, backgrounds, genders, ages, all offering their take on my life and opinions - that’s worthy […]

Who knew I’d get so fired up about media articles this week? New York Magazine writes about the current rise in prenuptial agreements. In particular, it points out that more and more upper-middle class couples in their 20s and 30s are executing prenups for first marriages. These young bastions of corporate opportunity spout jargon like […]

So the “Times” wants to talk about women in law firms. It cites the very interesting statistic that, despite the fact that 50% of the associates in first-year classes at most firms are women, less than 17% of partners are female. Of that group of bright-eyed, eager young female first-years, more than half are gone […]

I’m back in Manhattan, refreshed, slightly sunburned and ready for the next round of edits. For the first time in my life, I bounded off the plane at the end of a vacation excited to get back to work. It’s pretty cool, I recommend it.
Thanks to everyone who sent me the New York Times […]

This week marks the one year anniversary of the blog. I can barely remember writing the first few posts, it’s all become a blur of pixels and various emotions. But I do recall thinking that I’d likely never be plodding away on my laptop a full year later. And with that, I’m taking a break. […]

It’s an overcast but mercifully warm Sunday afternoon, and Boyfriend and I have driven upstate in search of the small but substantial details that Manhattan life lacks: sitting in a meter-less automobile, paying under $12 for a plate of pancakes, standing beside a tree not encircled by dog shit and concrete. We’re strolling through a […]

A couple times a week the emails trickle in about comments. Either they politely inquire where the comments section has gone, throwing in some closer like “your blog was far more interesting with the comments” (ahh the beauty of tact), or they lambast me for removing the ability of complete strangers to express their opinions […]