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An Update, a Promise, and the Promise of a Promise
Hi, remember me? The girl who used to blog here? Well, I’m back. Again. But this time it’s for good and I’m finally going to start writing about interesting things: travel, design, anthropology, social...
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Happy Hour: The (Not so) Perfect Engagement Ring Rouse
Here is how I know that there’s an engagement ring in my future. Last week, upon finding myself very angry at PIC for a number of seemingly important reasons, I texted my girlfriend Caroline and asked...
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Greetings from the 1920s
No, this is not another rant about how weird and archaic it is to sit around waiting for the man you love to pop the question when you know he has the ring and he’s said he’ll do it by your birthday...
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Making Friends the Hard Way
Okay, so what I’m hearing is talking about something as mundane as teeth brushing actually excites all of you? And here I’ve been wasting time trying to come up with interesting topics… Silly me :)...
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His Love of BJs
My fiancé is obsessed with BJs. And no, I’m not talking about the sexual act. I’m talking about the store. The damn bulk warehouse store. I, on the other hand, as you can probably guess, am not...
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Black and White and Wet all over
Okay, I would like to state, for the record, that I have gone an entire week without posting anything wedding-related. I also told PIC that we could have one wedding-free day each week, during which I...
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The Pope-Pocalypse
It’s almost here: the arrival of Pope Francis in the City the Brotherly Love. And in case you forget, I-95 is just brimming with billboards to welcome him. This makes me wonder: is Pope Francis, at any...
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Rosaries and Ovaries: Standing for Planned Parenthood in Philadelphia
Well that did not go according plan. I was sitting in Planned Parenthood, waiting for my annual exam and even though I had a great new novel in my purse, I couldn’t focus. This was partly because they...
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A Racist Looks at The Nutcracker as a Form of Historical Dance
It’s been a while since I’ve seen The Nutcracker and a while since I’ve blogged too for that matter, but I’ll spare you all the apologies and excuses and get down to business. By “a while” I mean...
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To Do: Post Christmas Edition
Unpack from Christmas Part 1 (which was spent with PIC’s parents, brother, and brother’s wife in New York this past weekend) Wrap presents for Christmas Part 2 (which will be spent with my parents,...
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The Case of the Suicidal Santa
I’m pretty sure I know exactly what went on here, but I bet you all can come up with some theories of your own… Thoughts?
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Of Ballet and Back Spasms
When I was in college, I used to calculate exactly how many ballet classes I could skip before my attendance (or lack thereof) would affect my final grade. It was usually three or four, and I’d take...
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The Mass Transit Adventures of an Occasional (but not today) Role Model
So it’s 7:30am and I’m on the subway headed downtown to meet PIC at his office. I’ve gotten up early to go to the gym because after being laid up for the past month, I’m feeling more beluga whale than...
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The Bare Necessities
It’s been a while since I’ve found myself running anywhere as a dance critic. This is because you learn a thing or two over the years, like always bring a back up pen and some chocolate in your purse...
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Why The Jungle Book is “Better than the Circus”
The thing about kids is that they require constant vigilance. You have to be forever one step ahead of them, and you have to assess all the possible outcomes of any given situation before you say “yes”...
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The Bride who forgot to Binge
Okay, was anyone going to tell me that House of Cards Season 4 dropped not one, not two, but THREE DAYS AGO??? I could use this opportunity to make some sort of joke (“You know you’re planning a...
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Can Bad Karma Hurt Your Leg?
Well, this one takes the cake: After waiting on hold for 15 minutes with the MRI Department at Penn in order to request a copy of my disc to take to my doctor at Rothman, I’m told I should have called...
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Dog (Help) Needed
It’s almost time, folks. By which I mean I’m going to marry my best friend, fly to Italy for two weeks and—wait for it—adopt a dog! Or two. I’m pushing for two. The way I see it, adopting a dog is like...
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The Anthropology of the Anthropologie Sample Sale
So the thing that nobody tells you about a lumbar ESI is that they comprise a “it’s gonna get worse before it gets better” kind of situation. Actually, that’s not true. They did tell me that. I...
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Alton Sterling, Philando Castile, and the Language of Massacre
On December 28, 1890, the U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment intercepted a group of Lakota Native Americans en route to South Dakota’s Pine Ridge Agency and escorted them to Wounded Knee Creek, where they were...
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