December 2016 shall henceforth be known as the month I became Very Boring. After months of frustrating unemployment interspersed with exc...

Welp, this month has been a doozy of emotions. There was that whole depressing/upsetting/baffling election debacle that I'm still not...

You guyssssss - I did it! I actually for real's not for fake got all gussied up and walked down an aisle and got married in front of ...

* Mother Tongue (Christine Gilbert) - I thoroughly enjoyed this memoir about a mother's (admittedly crazy) idea to become fluent in...

I don't want to be one of those people who only talks about her wedding, but my wedding is in 15 days and I can think of no other wor...

I am by no means a true frequent flyer, but 2016 is shaping up to be my personal Year of Travel. I've already taken eight flights a...

Sometimes it's a late summer afternoon and you're one month away from your wedding and even though all the pesky details and...

I don't want to be one of those people who only talks about the weather, but you guys, it's like a sauna out there. Seriously I b...

It's been a strange summer. I haven't been stuck in a theater like I normally am this time of year and the surplus of free time t...

1.) Start four different posts that you immediately hate because they are trite and/or uninteresting and/or boring for even you to read. ...

Today, my beloved Fitbit app told me that I have walked a total of 1,600 miles since first donning the tracker a year and a half ago - th...

* Love With a Chance of Drowning (Torre DeRoche) - a fun and entertaining memoir about a woman who overcame her fear of water (hence the...

I've been light on the posts this month for reasons that range from acceptable to excuse. I got caught up in a work project, I got ca...

In the midst of some truly awful New England springtime weather systems and some truly wonderful travel opportunities to exotic tropical...

Thanks to a recently diagnosed tree nut allergy, I've been starting my mornings with an egg as opposed to my usual bowl of allergens ...

* The Story of a New Name  (Elena Ferrante) I was hooked by book no. 1, and now with this second Neapolitan Novel, I have become fully ad...

I'm between gigs right now and as a result, my brain is a giant jumble of thoughts and schedules and to-do lists and all the things I...

You guys. When I added "ride the Staten Island Ferry" to my list of new year's resolutions for 2016, I a.) assumed it'd...

I recently downloaded a new app for my phone that displays the weather, MTA travel alerts, a three-day pollen count forecast, an icon tha...

Last week was J's birthday, and the rule in our family is that you get any meal you want on your birthday. It took him a few days to ...