Nine PM on a Tuesday night, we’re home, fed, watching TV, doing our best to forget about all the work we didn’t get done in the past twelve hours that needs to get done before we can go to bed (but probably won’t). Boyfriend lies on the couch with Cat sprawled across his stomach while […]

Blog’s been dormant for a few days as I’ve been busy soaking in the sad depths of Libbytude for Huffpo. But now we’re back up and running, complete with an announcement: Starting today, Opinionistas will be syndicated on Yahoo. Once a week a different post will be featured on Capessa, a women’s lifestyle and wellness […]

“Bonsoir!” chirps the tiny hostess as we step from a drizzly Rue St. Honore into the bar entryway. She wears diamond studs and a black dress so tight her head and neck look squeezed out the top like a tube of frosting. “Are you on the list this evening?” she says in too-perfect French that […]

“So what are you and Boyfriend doing for Valentine’s Day?” K asks in that wonderfully expectant way women have of talking about a holiday constructed around commercially-cultivated links between love and expensive jewelry. Swallowing a gulp of ginger ale (the arctic temperatures and unrestrained germ explosions turning every vodka tonic into a possible bubonic plague), […]

Thanks to all the readers who’ve written in about this post. Many of you were only too happy to inform me that the culprit behind the Unnamed Evil Known As Being Wrong is little more than a big fat OD on pride. While there’s likely some truth to that, filing the whole phenomenon under an […]

It never ceases to amaze me how much our lives revolve around being wrong. When you think about it, the concept pretty much governs our daily existence. We’ll go to astounding lengths and do just about anything to avoid it - lie, dodge, hide, compromise, shed integrity like a molted skin. No matter how honorable […]

Something about this article has been nudging the back of my head (Note: its headline used to read, “Was 9/11 Really That Bad?” No doubt I wasn’t the only one who had problems with that one). Beyond the provocative subject matter and valuable political points it raises about American military overreaction, there’s something so basic […]

The following was sent to me by a reader in Australia. It’s a set of exerpts from a “reflective journal” he and his fellow associates were required to keep during their first few months as newly-crowned lawyers (you have to love these perky HR schemes meant to “encourage reflection on the learning derived from your […]

Boyfriend and I consider ourselves reasonably intelligent when it comes to language (”reasonably” being a term packed with wiggle room). Combined, we’ve solved Sunday crosswords, aced AP English, won eighth grade spelling bees and written college papers on Nietzsche’s influence on modern literary theorists. Over the course of two beers and a sandwich, he […]

I’m home for the holidays and it’s Christmas Eve day, meaning time for the obligatory sojourn to visit our grandmother in the “assisted living facility” (”It’s not a nursing home!” she growls, as if the words denote a maximum security prison). Reaching the entrance, a stately awning that looks just like every other seasoned apartment […]