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.

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.

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 you will also love it, because, as you know, your approval sustains me. Hooray for stuff!

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 grail of concrete, which is, of course, transparent concrete.” Of course.

Anyway, he then showed us various examples of light-conducting concrete, of which this was my favorite.

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