Think about this statistic: “About 20 percent of teenagers have posted or sent nude cellphone pictures of themselves.” That’s according to the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy and was reported yesterday in the New York Times’ article Teaching Teenagers About Harassment. The “teaching teenagers” parts comes in the form of a campaign [...]
I’m looking at a photo on my desk of our friend Gaby and our friend Alex. They are standing together at the Metro Diner in New York City, where my son (another Alex) and I used to go every Friday morning. We would sit at the counter, and my Alex would have rice crispies and [...]
My three-year-old son calls the American flag “the Barack Obama flag.” Every time he sees it, he calls out, “There’s a Barack Obama flag.” I think that the various campaign materials with Obama and the flag on them led to this equation. That and the fact that he’s been in the world only three years. [...]
I have gone crazy for Facebook. It is fantastic (as Nicholas of Goscinny and Sempe fame would say). In the past week, I have connected with numerous old friends, some of whom I hadn’t heard from since ninth grade or even before that. Of course, the time I could spend cruising down memory lane is [...]
Sure, in the scheme of Madoff things, mittens that cost $200 are “relatively inexpensive,” as Madoff’s lawyer argued, but come on! $200 for mittens? Must have been made from some rare cashmere or maybe they were mink. Yes, that’s it — they were mink.
The mink mittens are now an “unmentioned” mystery, although Madoff has admitted [...]
I don’t really have time to be writing on my blog, because I need to go to my kitchen and throw out a few things. Mark Bittman has some great advice in today’s NYT Dining section about how to do that. http://tinyurl.com/7py8ta
I am happy and kind of proud to say, however, that about half of [...]
The Wall Street Journalran an illuminating article last Friday, which made clear what has happened with sub-prime loans. The story focused on a woman in Arizona whose story illustrated who all the different players were in creating the current economic mess and what would lead to someone’s borrowing money well beyond anything she could ever [...]
The new year is here! My new website is here! The new president is almost here! In May, my new and first novel will be here! (You can read the first chapter right now if you want to…)
I bumped into the following lines from an Emily Dickinson poem yesterday: “Hope is the thing with feathers/That [...]
