When, in the shadow of the Harvey Weinstein furor, the #MeToo hashtag started taking over my social media feeds last year, my first thought was #WellDuh. I’ve got a million #MeToo stories. The high school basketball star who tried to stick my hand down his pants, the college boys who thought I owed Continue Reading
How My Dog Convinced me to Get Botox
or How my dog drove me to get Botox. In past years having my period at work meant I regularly employed the old tampon up your sleeve on the way to the rest room routine. But of late I take a different tack. In my dotage, I march towards the restroom twirling my tampon like a baton. Continue Reading
Activism Boot Camp: Are High Schoolers our Hope for the Future?
This is not a photo of kids waiting for a bus Oh, I know what it looks like. It looks like a photo of a bunch of teenagers waiting on line for a bus. But in fact, it’s a photo of hope. It’s a photo of the future. It’s a photo that reassures me that our democracy will not die, but will live on in Continue Reading
Museum Hack: A Whole New Way to Go to the Museum
What it was like to be a Bad Ass B*tch at the Metropolitan Museum with Museum Hack. Back in the 1970's, my mother got me a spiral bound, probably mimeographed workbook of Metropolitan Museum Treasure Hunts. I still vividly remember the bright turquoise cover with its hand drawn Met hippo, the Continue Reading
jimmyCASE: My Favorite New iPhone Case
I was given a jimmyCASE to facilitate this review. Although I don't post a whole lot on my blog anymore, I still regularly get pitches from PR companies wanting to send me stuff to review. Go figure. Mostly, it's stuff I would never want: diaper bags (my kids are teenagers), car seats (did I Continue Reading
We’re Walking Here: A Behavioral Guide for Tourists to NYC
With high-tourist season about to begin, a New Yorker tells visitors how to navigate New York like a native. Or close enough. NYC has a love/hate thing with tourists. We need you. You stay in our hotels, you buy stuff, you fill the seats at Broadway Shows starring b-list celebrities. You go to Continue Reading
Why Donald Trump’s Leaked Comments Won’t Change A Thing
Embed from Getty Images I wouldn't shake that hand! Who knows where it's been? The news world is all aflutter: Donald Trump was heard on tape saying vile and disgusting things about women! Ratings galore! Pundits never-ending! The left is all excited: this is it! This will be the Continue Reading
Bright Star: A Great Mother’s Day Gift of a Broadway Show
Mother's Day is around the corner. And what better gift than tickets to a warm, funny, moving Broadway show, starring an incredible newcomer: Carmen Cusack. Tickets to Bright Star, which opened on Broadway this season, would make the perfect Mother's Gift this year. Bright Star, written and Continue Reading
#goEnjoy ENJOY: Personal Tech Service #Coupon #DiscountCode
I love me some new technology. I love marveling at what these new-fangled contraptions can do. How they work. Their simplicity. What I don’t enjoy is having to figure out how they do what they do, and set them up myself. Enter ENJOY, the new home tech delivery service I tried out last Continue Reading
How Not to be “That Person” in Your Co-Working Space
WeWork. NeueHouse, Grind, The Yard. If you're a small business or start up owner, chances are you are either already in one of these hip or pseudo-hip shared office environments, or thinking of joining one. Want free beer? There's a co-working space for that. Want foosball tables? Check. Want Continue Reading