Bless you, Michael Noer, author of the journalistic gem “Don’t Marry Career Women” (originally removed from the Forbes website in an obvious mea culpa but then reposted with a female rebuttal), for saving my relationship. Here I was second-guessing my decision to quit my six-figure job, fretting and fussing over whether my darling boyfriend […]
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Wednesday, August 23rd, 2006
Thursday, August 10th, 2006
“Women, they just, they suck!”
I stare at the speaker, a tanned, well-built banker in his early thirties, attractive as much as there’s nothing physically wrong with him, his blue eyes void of self-reflection.
“Umm, not sure how I’m supposed to respond to that.” I try to keep my tone friendly; he’s an acquaintance, the kind […]
Wednesday, November 16th, 2005
“She’s not coming back? Well there’s one huge fucking shock.”
M takes an emphatic swig from his $8 imported beer and shakes his head. We’re perched on splintery bar stools, shouting over the din of Thursday night happy hour. He called my desk an hour earlier to inform me the legal universe had miraculously aligned such […]
Monday, May 16th, 2005
Boyfriend is off in L.A. on business this week, which means two basic things: 1) I get treated to a daily report about how he’s sitting in a hot tub on the beach with a beer and a tan, or lounging at the king-size catering table on a movie set; and 2) I get to […]