It’s the lit­tle things that put the spring in your step (and the ego into over­drive)…
This email was sent to me last week:
We are very pleased to re­port that you are in the top half of OkCupid’s most at­trac­tive users. The scales re­cently tipped in your fa­vor, and we thought you’d like to know.
How can we say […]

I love vin­tage ads. They cer­tainly didn’t beat around the bush back then. They told you, in very frank and ex­plicit terms, why you needed to buy this prod­uct — you were too fat, you were too ugly, you were sin­gle!
In these times of sub­lim­i­nal mes­sag­ing, where the misog­yny be­hind an ad is hid­den in sub­text and “art”, […]

I have a con­fes­sion to make: I am a for­mer Catholic school­girl.
I’ve since been saved from the church and have been blas­phem­ing ever since. When I heard the news that The Vatican gave Avatar a poor re­view and crit­i­cized the film for “flirt­ing with mod­ern doc­trines that pro­mote the wor­ship of na­ture as a sub­sti­tute for re­li­gion,” my im­me­di­ate thought was, “Wow, someone’s […]

With the New Year comes new res­o­lu­tions, goals you set that are meant to give your life struc­ture and mean­ing against the dol­drums that we call “January”, “February” and “Smarch”. We al­low our­selves to in­dulge in so many sins dur­ing the hol­i­days be­cause we re­ally be­lieve that on January 1^st, we will crawl out of […]

A friend re­cently sent me an ar­ti­cle called “Why I’m Alone”. It is a re­sponse by Huffington Post colum­nist Lea Lane to the ques­tion she is of­ten asked in the years fol­low­ing the death of her hus­band: Why is she still alone? Why doesn’t she date much?
While I’ve never loved and lost like Ms. Lane, I can […]