Getting married is a little bit like blasting off into outer space.
A journey beyond the limits of anything you’ve known before. Crossing into uncharted territory. Braving new worlds.
And the preparations can get pretty harrowing. But if there’s one ...
Yesterday, during a heated cocktail-party debate over the most influential figure in Western history, your erudite blind date nominated Johannes Gutenberg.
“Well, I loved him in Cocoon,” you drawled condescendingly, “but I hardly think that puts him the same ...
Unless you’re one of the famous ones (Great, Wailing), being a wall is a pretty thankless existence.
A lifetime of holding up ceilings and keeping out bad weather. And how do we thank them? By adorning them with taped-up Britney ...
It’s 11 p.m. on a Tuesday and you’ve got that I-showed-the-mildew-who’s-boss glow … when the doorbell rings.
It’s your younger brother. In town with his band and looking to crash. Familial piety makes you relent, but you cringe inwardly at ...
Remember childhood dinners? No having fun (freeze tag, TV, torturing younger siblings) until after you finished eating. Which meant creatively shuffling your chicken cutlet and string beans into hiding.
Some of us are still playing with leftovers.
Philadelphia-based design collective ...
You’re quite the decorator, you are.
You’ve matched the art to the sofa, the napkins to the carpet, and — oh, dear — the drapes to the La-Z-Boy.
But what about the wallpaper to the bedspread?
Okay, now, before you ...
“Hey. Inarush. Meetyoutonightatseven. Bringthebagyouborrowed. Okaybye.”
A twenty-minute conversation shrunk to 57 seconds because you only have two minutes of battery time left on your cell phone. A sign of the times, friends, a sign of the times.
Get ready for ...
Germ phobias are so five years ago. If you really want to keep up with the times, develop an irrational fear of computer viruses. Or carbs.
We can’t all change our OCD habits to suit the season. So, what’s a ...
