Hold Off on Holden
J.D. Salinger died on January 27th. Can’t we give him a rest? The life of a genius recluse holds a lurid fascination. Salinger wrote The Catcher in the Rye, a book that, once it’s been read – from...
View ArticleBride-elled Passions
It’s not quite March, but already the clanging of wedding bells can be heard in the distance. Already, in some cases, they’re clanging out of tune. Witness the extremely public example of Washington...
View ArticleBeyond Reservations
“How late may we linger at a restaurant?” friends ask me, trying to put a little parley-voo-spin on the obvious question. What they’re actually asking, of course, is, “If we just sit at the table,...
View ArticleA Face in the Crowd
I had absolutely no idea who you were, the other night at a cocktail party. It was probably my mother’s fault. Sometime last week, NPR reported “the results of a recent scientific study” indicating...
View ArticleWorked Over
Here’s an inquiry from a Facebook Friend Sometimes when you see someone in person after you haven’t seen them in a long time, you might not recognize them right away. Whether we want to admit it or...
View ArticleBottled Up?
Here’s a concern voiced to me, post-Oscar Monday, by a not-overly blond nor excessively slender person, at the gym: “Last night, I threw my Oscars party. I did all the food, except for the part of it...
View ArticleInfested
This question in, via e-mail: I know it’s not an uncommon experience, but it’s the first time it’s happened to me. My son, who’s 6, was part of a sleep-over party at a friend’s house last week. When he...
View ArticleFORK IT OVER
My friend Minerva is fed up with her cousins. To put it more precisely, she’s fed up with the way they feed each other. The cousins (let’s call them Calvin and Blanche, since, having actual names of...
View ArticleLest We Not Be Included…
It’s wedding time, and the invite business, sticky-note-wise and otherwise, is already bedecking the break-room bulletin boards. One, fiercely engraved, says: Mr. and Mrs. Herrick Kinsley Postough...
View ArticleAir Heads
Yes, Steven Slater, the freaked-out JetBlue flight attendant, went over the top when he picked up the mic and called out nasty names for the passenger who kept dragging her bag down from the bins, when...
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