Cute things to do when you first start dating:  trade iPods for a week (unless you are iPhone’d).  My friend and her new boo did that as part of their courting and it didn’t seem to scare either one away. Indeed we all know one can learn a lot about a person from reviewing one’s [...]

Then I lost him again and I got caught up in my real purpose of making this event actually happen. An hour later, I spotted him.  The party was in full swing and he was very much trying to be part of it. I was in the middle of addressing an issue so noted his [...]

I was producing another celebrity-attended event and I had the task of attempting to expel a hanger-on, who had been hired to handle lighting for the event but, having completed his duties, decided to stay and in so doing, ended up harassing some of our VIP guests. I can be stern and it’s not always [...]

Since becoming a part time country mouse three years ago, I promised myself I’d check out the local horse shows.  I was told one of the biggest riding circuits was located a block from my house.  There, a sprawling complex of stables and show rings brought in the horses and their riders every few weeks [...]

Scene in the ‘burg, Monday morning.  The new economy.  Job seekers?  Screenwriters?  Novel writers? Bloggers?  Compulsive emailers? Hulu watchers? A Mac ad, if only one wasn’t a Toshiba? Sorry to the cute cafe whose name I didn’t catch but it’s around N. 10th on the west side of Bedford.

Last week, I was in the suburban kitchen of one of my closest friends.  It was a catch-up day, which we hadn’t done in forever. We had just picked up her 3 ½ -year-old, Daniel, from pre school and were preparing lunch for us and snacks for him.  While we chatted near the kitchen sink, [...]

Feeling lazy at the gym, this morning, I opt for the machine called Arc Trainer.  The girl to my right is the girl from my Ellipses post. Of course it is. She is on her favorite machine.  I notice that the machine to her right had an out of order sign—this time official, not homemade—and [...]

“Do you think she’s pregnant?” Sari asks one morning as we spin away on two stationary bikes at the gym in our neighborhood. “I don’t know,” I say. “Maybe she has a distended stomach from not eating.” “I hope she’s not pregnant. She doesn’t look healthy.” She is quite skinny but doesn’t look full on [...]