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Since I loved the Business Insider’s Guide to Being a Man, I thought I’d create my own guide on How to Be a Lady! Am [...]

I will occasionally make sweeping remarks about things I observe in life. Some people would call them generalizations. I call it modern anthropology. So [...]

I went to Texas for the first time ever this past summer. I was in Austin for a night and Fort Worth the next. [...]

“Daahhling, are you sure you’re not lesbian?” asks my über-posh British friend, Daisy*, over vodka tonics with lime cordial and an extra squeeze of [...]

We’ve all seen the ubiquitous rules on style that just about every fashion magazine publishes at least once a year – “Every girl should [...]

Preamble Yesterday evening Simon and I were out for dinner with our friends, Rob and Tessa.  We were in London Soho at this very [...]

Vienna, December 2012 ACT 1 My beautiful (very beautiful) Mexican friend, Valentina, called me a few weeks prior to a long-planned girls trip to [...]

  Connecticut, 2005 (yes, 2005) Tonight as I was doing the ironing, I was thinking that I might like to call the finished product [...]

from August 2012: TERMINAL 5, LONDON HEATHROW — So apparently I talk a lot.  I already new this but I must have bypassed the [...]

I met with an English girlfriend, Annabelle*, today for lunch at our local café in town. She’s back from having spent the past six [...]