Le Marriage et Le Travaille

Dearest Millicent,
I think you are wandering in a forest somewhere. Perhaps in the fog or at the buffet in a boat-shaped restaurant? Wherever you are, I hope you return to us soon. Our cozy tearoom is lonely when all I have to chat with is the embroidered floral chair across the way (it’s next to [...]

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More Nails

Thought this was an important follow up: turns out it isn’t nail polish but some odd nail film

And, there is magazine all about nails. Good day, indeed.

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Of All Things

I think that one of the lasting impressions of today’s innauguration is that Beyonce’ has inspired me to reconsider metallic nail polish. I want to go dip my nails in platinum, toot suite!
Change? Hope? Check and check.

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Sterling sounds like an affordable drugstore cologne

Oh my! The Sterling Institute looks terrifying.  I am fascinated that your friend presented it to you.  I keep thinking of Jez and Super Hans in their button up shirts and clean hair.  This reminds me again of that story in Jezebel that ran about men needing to release their inner douche-bag to claim their [...]

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5 Answers (Unhelpful)

I think being the old lady on the porch may be the best of professions.
Lavender and Bacon! My new potpourri of choice!  Since they are both such wonderful smells, they sometimes get confused and switch places without telling anybody.  It’s  complicated. Inanimate, and complicated.
Facebook is a mist that rolls into our homes, looks in our [...]

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Introducing The Sterling Institute Men’s Weekend

I think I’ve found the grown-up version of Calvin and Hobbes’ secret club, G.R.O.S.S. (Get Rid of Slimy girlS): it is called The Sterling Institute Men’s Weekend. It seems to share genes with Robert Bly’s Mythopoetic Men’s Movement, but it has certain things that make it all its own animal.
First, it’s Purpose:
To engage in the [...]

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5 Questions

Dearest CF,
1. Sitting in my living room with the shades drawn, camera poised to photograph the smallish miscreants who may or may not take up their post in front of my house after school lets out, I realize I’ve become Cheri Oteri’s Old Grumpy Porch Lady from SNL. Is this a bad development?
2. Why do [...]

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John Does, John Writes

Dearest M.,
Are you familiar with Letters from Johns, Susannah Breslin’s project where men write about their experiences with prostitution? I’m interested in your thoughts on the project, which just ended last week.  As I read over some of the letters involved I am taken by how interested I am, how angry I get, and then [...]

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A Virgo We Will Go

Dearest teapot,
I hope this finds you well.  It has been so long since we corresponded in this little plaza that my fingers feel rusty, and a bit unwilling.  But, it is January gudummit, and we will resolute!  I offer, as a wading pool to lead us to our ultimate synchronized swimming routines, that we perhaps [...]

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