Tomorrow I leave for vacation! Eep! I love nothing more than being in a beautiful place and nothing less than actually getting there. I would be a major candidate for Harry Potter’s floo powder, or Samantha’s nose-twitch, or just a little space-time-continuum ripping. But if all goes well, tomorrow I will be in a cab,…

You guys, I had something of a bust-size shocker last weekend when I went to buy a dress for my brother-in-law’s upcoming wedding.  At Nordstrom, I found this awesome frock, which was a perfect fit except for a missing, um, pair of breasts.  Let’s just say A and B have always been the names of…

I’m thinking this morning about this quote from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: “Each morning sees some task begin, Each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, Has earned a night’s repose.” I love the cleanliness with which Longfellow describes a day.  Open a door on something in the morning, close it in the evening.  Then…

Sigh. Adam Yauch a.k.a. MCA from the Beastie Boys announced yesterday that he has cancer. MCA! So sad. I was practically weaned on their first album, License to Ill. Their scrappy, ironic, funny-white-kids-rapping routine almost made 7th grade bearable. They started as a smart joke and then evolved into truly talented, unmockable mucisians, something no one really…

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