Year: 2009

What Am I Reading? Young Women

I read the blogs of a lot of young women. Sure, some identify as preppies, some are clearly artists and creative people, others are lawyers,

The Whiteness of Rice

keeke’s photostream Some of us have such thin skins that we are ambushed by the mundane. How does one survive until midlife if the whiteness

What Do I Read? Funny, Midlife, Moms

Continuing the hunt for blogroll optimization, here is the next section of my Reader, decipherable if you squint. I think. Funny (I have a “Funny”

Fierce in Your Fifties

One might wonder, why would a corporate executive, one who used to agonize over curling iron or no curling iron in the 80’s, who wore

What Do I Read? Fashion+Design

In order to expand my blog reading, to optimize it (all those years of searching for optimization in my career do not go gentle into

You Too Can Prevent Unemployment

I was talking to my youngest sister, who is also looking for work, although in her case as part of her emergence from the life

Saturday Morning at 9:49am

I was in the supermarket the other day, Whole Foods to be precise, and the woman ahead of me in the checkout line had a

Where Did You Go To School, Part 2

I was still 17 when I went to college. I was not a prodigy. My birthday is just in late September. I flew across the