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Okay, the Tasti D Lite that used to be mere steps from my building is now The Lite Choice and, heads up, I’m less than pleased. The Lite Choice–talk about a misnomer. I didn’t get a choice, a say, and certainly not a vote. But then I’m pretty fed up with what as of now [...]
For most of my adult life, I’ve lived by the mantra that we eat to live, not live to eat. That thinking served me in good stead–until I moved to Manhattan. Food–gloriously good food–at all price ranges is available everywhere at all times. At any given hour a good half of the pedestrians pushing past me [...]
Last night my buddy Elizabeth Kerri Mahon of Scandalous Women blog fame and I turned out for the Film Society of Lincoln Center’s reception for uber actor, Benicio Del Toro. The event was held at The Apartment on the 24th floor of the swank Hudson Hotel. The hors d’oeuvres were fab, the white wine perfectly [...]
The One Who Got Away…We all have one, which is to say a “The One.” You know what or rather who I mean. The O-N-E. Maybe he was your first love or your first big love. Maybe he was both. Maybe you broke up with him–but I’m betting my next book advance he broke up [...]
Okay, I have officially become one of those people. You know, Those People. The People who a mere week ago I felt completely justified, even compelled, to make fun of. The People so besotted with their Blackberry AKA Crackberry devices they can’t take their eyes or hands off them for a minute. No matter how [...]
I recently met a female writer buddy for Indian food in the West Village. Over a leisurely dinner of vegetable samosas, curried shrimp, and palak peneer, we chatted about a host of topics–our current writing projects (a given), restaurants, a lecture she’d attended that day addressing psychoanalytic perspectives on attraction and mating, an award she’d just received for her [...]
Whether you ring in the New Year clinking glasses with friends and party music pumping or at home watching the televised Times Square ball drop with Chinese carry-out and a cat curled on your lap, in the words of my STROKES OF MIDNIGHT heroine, Becky Stone, I wish you a 2008 chockful of “fresh starts [...]
Whether you live in an area where Jack Frost is already nipping your nose or you’re reaching for the sunscreen to ward off a Caribbean style sizzle, whether you’re spending the day en famille sitting down to a traditional family feast, or plopping down solo on the sofa to watch either football or a rented [...]
Okay, so we’re three weeks and counting into a new year, and I can’t help wondering how many of us made New Year’s resolutions for 2007–and how many of us have kept them. In Baltimore where I grew up, I attended an Episcopal private school from grades six to twelve. Every Friday, we broke from [...]
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