“Do you know that she is drinking your iced tea?”
My friend Jill and I brought our two year old daughters to our local Starbucks for their weekly “play-date”; i.e., we get wired on caffeine and maniacally discuss all of our brilliant business ideas while our toddlers eat goldfish crackers and fend for themselves. This particular [...]

Yesterday was the day, on the Hebrew calendar. Two years since my mom died.
I had every excuse in the book to not go to the cemetery. I was sick, run down, and needed to rest. But I couldn’t relax when I knew I needed to be there. So I called my dad and told him [...]

After giving the critically important issue of Kelly Ripa’s “persona of perfection” some thought, I have come to the following conclusions.
Perhaps, Ms. Ripa shouldn’t fess up to her fans. Perhaps we need her image of perfection to inspire us to be our most vivacious, ambitious, and skinniest self.
If Kellly were to occasionally be grumpy and [...]

Dear Jill,
You are a great friend, a wonderful mother, and an incredible chef. But I am now making the following request:
No matter how much I beg, bribe, coerce or plead… no matter how much compensation I offer you, do not sell me any more of your tapanade. Under any circumstances. 
Yesterday, I bought another batch from [...]

I am now officially a Brentwood Bitch. I am sitting in a hair salon, my hair wrapped in foils, as my obnoxious, black SUV is blocking my alleyway. I realize my neighbors are probably cursing me in every language as I write this, but the show must go on. And in order to keep up [...]

I just watched an episode of True Hollywood Story that featured Kelly Ripa. After spending an hour listening to her friends and colleagues rave about her ambition, talent, and ability to balance 16 hour work days with being a mom to 3 young children, my greatest question was not answered.
How much help do you really [...]

It is remarkable that after over two decades of menstruation, I am still thrown for a loop by my monthly cycle. Every 28 days or so, this freaky thing happens to my body. First, I have the overwhelming urge to consume my body weight in salt, which I counterbalance with chocolate chips and peanut butter. [...]

The other evening in Manhattan, my dear friend Heather and I went to a lounge to relax over a bottle of sparkling water. As we were sitting at a little table in the corner, a couple of mediocre-looking, slightly inebriated men came over in an attempt to chat us up. They delivered a few trite [...]

“I’m off to see Heather.”
My husband and I are in a Manhattan hotel room, on a brief family getaway. I agreed to venture to New York with my children because my husband seduced me with the promise of a day of complete freedom in Manhattan while he entertained the kids.
Until I had children, New York [...]

I know there are many cliches about crazy New York cab drivers, so I am going to skip an introduction. Let me just say that the experience of riding in the back of taxis is so physically and mentally unbearable for me, that I often opt to walk instead, regardless of the climate or distance [...]