Business Card Rules

In a few years, this post might be obsolete.  Some might argue that it already is.  But for the moment, this is the most important thing you need to know in the entire world.  I want to talk to you about your cards.  Business or personal … cards.  You know Read more

Summer Shaming: Why the Term “Bikini Season” Will Always Piss Me Off

It usually starts right before January 1st of every year and continues, unabated, until around June. You know what I’m talking about: the onslaught of “bikini season.” Which means, as women (sorry, guys, but you’re left out of this one), we’re expected to find the idea of our out of Read more

Don’t Sell Your House. Do Whatever it Takes But DO NOT Sell YOUR HOUSE!

I grew up in Manhattan. That is New York City. Not Brooklyn. Not the Bronx. Not Queens. Not any other borough. Just Manhattan. THE CITY. A small island. We lived in a two bedroom, one bath apartment on the 30th floor of a high rise in Tribeca. It faced the Read more

Should Freedom of Speech have Limits? Maybe.

After two harrowing weeks in Paris, it behoves me to make a few enlightened comments. I use the word ‘enlightened’ not as a means to flatter myself into brilliance but instead to indicate that I am making observations based on the thinkers of the Age of Reason or the Enlightenment. Read more

Are You Masculine Enough to be Feminine? Effeminate Men are Sexy!

My husband could not be anymore of a “man.” A macho, tough, tattooed, spitting, cursing, truck driving man. Really this is true. I met him when I was 14, and he was 16 in New York where we grew up. He hooked me up with his best friend on the Read more

You Are Enough

I was sitting in Panera, sipping on some amazing tea and thinking about writing another chapter for my latest book, when I overheard the women to my right talking. They were both in their mid-twenties, professionally dressed and very attractive. The one woman was telling the other about her latest Read more