i stopped liking him the moment he referenced steel magnolias ( Read more... )

I have an iron will that is not thwarted by biking uphill ( Read more... )

I love this city ( Read more... )

BRING IT ( Read more... )

I'm officially half-Jewish, half-corporate ( Read more... )

This weekend we had a 48 hour family reunion at Amah's house. My grandmother is one of eleven children (if you count the two half brothers), and yesterday the five surviving siblings reconvened in her lovely backyard. Polly is the oldest at 91, and she uses a cane and has the most Jewish face. Cippy is pushing 90, despite the fact that she "planned ( Read more... )

I was an avid "Babysitter's Little Sister" fan growing up. Karen Two-Two (so called because of her parents divorce, and her subsequent identity struggle and later, acceptance) believed she got good luck if the first two words she uttered on the first of every month were "rabbit rabbit." call it suspicion, but i still do it, fifteen years after ( Read more... )

i fasted for yom kippur today and it was easier than i thought it would be ( Read more... )

happy new year ( Read more... )

today i had a hollow, sad, distant feeling, a new feeling ( Read more... )