Archive for October, 2004

OVERHEARD

Scenario: The best parts of a conversation overheard in Starbucks. An older Indian consultant reviews his findings with a younger man who is a manager. The older man talks very loudly, and the younger man nods.
“You need to spend more time with your employees. You have to go to this wheel spinning class everyone is […]

IT’S MY BIRTHDAY!

I’ll be the one with icing on my face.

PUGS: A LIST

Churchill
Prunella
Smooie
Aubergine
Rosebud
Remington

READER, I MARRIED HIM

Him: She just wants to be loved.
Me: Everybody wants to be loved.
Him: I want to be feared.
Me: Good to know.

STUPEFIED

This weekend, I actually paid to see the new Jennifer Lopez movie, and then snuck into the Hillary Duff movie (which is surprisingly easy when you and all of your cohorts have been old enough to drink for a decade or so).
The first movie made my brain all gummy and warm. Half way through the […]

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY

Me: I feel cute today.
Him: Yeah.
Me: Please supply commentary.
Him: Baby, you look so cute today!
Me: Thanks! You look cute today too.
Him: Thanks!
(pause)
Me: I like being married to you.

NEW YORK TIMES ARTICLE

A few days ago, I talked to Michelle Slatalla, an online shopping journalist for the New York Times. We had a very pleasant conversation on Fall trends, and you can read the article here.

MIGHTY GOODS

I’m doing something neat! Please come look. Together with Douglas Bowman of Stopdesign, I’m excited to announce the launch of Mighty Goods. (Trumpets sound, flags unfurl, cue the sexy dancing girls!) It’s a shopping blog full of good stuff, and we’ve been working on it for quite some time. I just love it. I hope […]

LET THERE BE LIGHT

While in D.C., we took a tour of the National Building Museum, which was having an exhibit on concrete. The exhibit was surprisingly fascinating, in part because our tour guide was the curator who put it together. Near the end of the tour, he said we were going to look at examples of “the holy […]

ELSEWHERE

I just wrote another etiquette piece for The Morning News. It’s called Don’t Be Rude: RSVPs and “Best Persons”.