People read this blog. I have no concept of exactly how many. Sure, I have a tracker on the site that offers plenty of details about my “traffic,” telling me how many people logged in from Uruguay on Tuesday afternoon and the average number of minutes a reader in the Isle of Man spends on […]

It’s a cloudy Sunday morning, and I’m sitting with Boyfriend at a tense Sunday brunch. We pick at our $13 pancakes and $12 eggs (serves us right for eating in Tribeca), while staring at Blackberry screens and stack of printouts, both immersed in our lists of immediate tasks that need to be accomplished so we […]

Ahh relationships. The great emotional equalizer. No matter how mature, sensible, rational or stable we might think we are, every one of us is capable of going completely batshit insane over another human being. The second you get too comfortable, maybe eyeing the bickering couple at the next dinner table with a self-righteous shrug or […]

Ah second-year law students, how I envy you. Donning pressed wool suits in the still-hot weather, milling around bite-size interview rooms anxiously awaiting your turn on the slab, clutching leather folders in sweaty palms as the Skadden or Simpson parner laughs uproariously at something the interviewee directly before you said, shooting fleeting glances at her […]

Funny how birthdays change so much over a lifetime. As a child they were the highlights of the year, a day that brought an automatic free pass to the state of self-indulgence and egocentricity that all children are born into and secretly wish they could stay in forever. Parties, presents, cakes, the thrill of adding […]

I always feel a sort of existential disquiet around models. This week in particular, with evenings spent gulping champagne to dull the acute discomfort as six-foot Eastern European waifs slither around me, their diaphanous skin reflecting camera flashes, their liner-smothered eyes staring from perfectly round heads that might snap off if you pulled hard enough. […]

It’s strange in the city today, the clear sky and September breeze automatically reminiscent of another perfect day, waking up in a different reality. I looked around on the subway at subdued tempers, an atmosphere weighted with significance, everyone retreating into their heads, their only companions their interior dialogue, that constant running commentary comforting only […]

I was pretty surprised the first time I got an email from an incensed Bruneian objecting to this post. The fact that I didn’t remember writing it, let alone keeping it in my archives, led to a few moments of total confusion (not uncommon for me, I’ll admit). But after a little quicktime recall, I […]

There’s an art to crashing a swanky Hamptons party. It should be done with a certain finesse, or at least a gung ho shamelessness that accompanies three or four vodka tonics. True, actually knowing the host or hostess would be considerably classier, but that’s not about to stop us on our quest for snooty revelry […]

I’m plodding down the sidewalk on a dreary afternoon, venturing into the teeming wild of Midtown for a lunch (in my lawyer days we called them “meetings” where lunch happened to be served - now they’re “lunches” where some business eventually gets discussed). Weaving through herds of tourists waving maps and hot dog carts filling […]