Month: February 2011

I am registered for the Country Music Half-Marathon in Nashville in April. Long story short: I’ve basically given up any hard-core training. Short story long: My life is so full right now.  I don’t have the hours in the week to put in the miles, nor do I have the desire to give anything up…

Some of you have been asking about my search for the ideal purse.* Listen, all I want is something dark brown and genuine leather, with no silver buckles or gold chains, small enough to carry into a bar, but large enough to lift a bottle of wine from a wedding reception. That’s all. And I…

All of last year, I lived in the apartment above the most silent man of all time.  The only time I ever saw him was when he would stand outside his front door smoking cigarettes with his headphones in, avoiding my eye contact as I would pass him on my way to the third floor. …