I saw this meme going around the other day. It was this photo of Bernie Sanders at the Biden inauguration, slumped on a chair in a face mask and mittens that went viral around the time it was taken. But this time the meme said,...
On December 31, 2019 I made a New Year's resolution to cut back on drinking alcohol. I wanted to say, "give up alcohol altogether," but, let's face it, I knew that wasn't going to actually happen...
On the day that I turned thirty I invited all of my friends over for a big party. There was punch with orange sherbet and a hot chocolate bar with Kahlúa and marshmallows and three kinds of pudding shots and sprinkled and frosted cupcakes and...
At the end of every year I always do two things. One, an apartment deep clean where I take everything out of every cabinet, every shelf, every drawer, and every closet and scrub down surfaces, purge things I no longer want or need, and reorganize....
It's almost the last day of 2020 and I think we're all breathing a collective sigh of relief. I mean, I don't really know why, it's not like things are going to magically get better when midnight strikes. In fact, I've seen every version of...
Normally around this time of year I publish my annual gift guide full of all the amazing, fun, and quirky random things I want you to buy for me and my cats. Of course, none of you ever actually buy me anything from that list....
I caused this pandemic. Sorry. I know you all think that it was some guy in China who ate a bat. Or think it was caused by 5G waves. Or think it is a Bill Gates conspiracy. Or even think that the virus doesn't even exist...
When I last sat down to try to write something here I was sitting on my cat-scratched couch, looking out my living room window at the glowing siren-sign of the shut-down Starbucks across the street. Usually when my brain is spinning and I need to...
Last fall I went to Duck Duck Goat for dim sum with my sister and her friends. Duck Duck Goat, if you don't know, is Top Chef winner Stephanie Izard's Asian-inspired restaurant in Chicago. It was also the one restaurant on my list of 12 restaurants...
At the beginning of 2019 I made a list of 12 restaurants that I really wanted to go to, one for each month of the year. I have this tendency to go to the same handful of places over and over again. To never leave my...