Last February I got laser eye surgery and it’s been so refreshing not to wear my glasses every waking hour. Another bonus of the procedure? Not having to factor in the cost of my prescription every time I buy sunglasses! When I emerged from the operating room I had visions of an expanded sunglass wardrobe dancing […]
I can’t remember the last time I bought a bathing suit. I think I’ve blocked it from my memory due to post-traumatic stress. From the muffin-top cuts to the dressing room lights, everything about shopping for bathing suits is so painfully cliched that the experience has become a running joke—one more likely to end in tears of rage than of […]
For my entire adult live, I’ve lived in apartments…until now, that is! Not long ago I moved in with my boyfriend, and we currently share a tiny craftsman bungalow in LA’s Highland Park neighborhood. For the first time since leaving my parents’ house I have freedom from noisy neighbors, my own washer and dryer, and—wonder of […]
When you were a kid, did you ever storm into a room where your parents were quietly minding their own business and announce with the maximum drama possible: “I’m BORED!”? Lately my fashion sensibility is that bratty, ennuied little girl. She remains stolidly unimpressed with this season’s trends (Off-the-shoulder peasant blouses? Really? Are we going […]