Fleurville’s Re-Run Hana Diaper Bag Every March and October, children’s apparel companies fill Jacob Javitz Convention Center in NYC for the ENK Children’s Club tradeshows to preview the fashions that will stock stores six months later. A smaller offshoot, Bubble New York, features...

I fell off the wagon a bit with spending during this pay period.  Since I am confined to activities that involve very little moving (breathing is still quite an effort) and minimal mental involvement (thank you prednisone), I have been trying to green things up.  I have been making sure ...

As promised, Laurie King is guest blogging here today on a topic and period that for a while now has been of endless fascination to me.  I'm a relatively new convert to the Mary Russell & Sherlock Holmes mysteries, but trust me, it only takes one book to become addicted.  S...

For the past month or so, I've been dealing with the plague on and off.  It was really bad for a few days and then it drifted off.  Last Friday, it got bad again.  Each day since, it has progressed with new symptoms.  Today, I felt like pure crap and stayed home from work...

I am home sick today.  I have the plague (again) and it is awful.  (I will be at the doctor in under an hour, which is why I am typing because I am attempting to sit upright again.)  Earlier today, I made a video of the cats with my phone.  When one is bound to one's bed,...

I met up with a friend the other night who owns an up-and-coming handbag company in Brooklyn, New York. I asked her how she thought the little boutiques and restaurants lining our Carroll Gardens neighborhood could possibly survive the economic downturn, selling their wares of overpriced skinny jean...

I've left off writing about Rebecca West's The Return of the Soldier for a b it too long, and now I'm no t sure I can do it justice .  As I read over other reviews to refresh my memory I see how bad it is for small details (a reminder to myself that notetaking wou...

On March 3, 2009, National Public Radio host Tom Ashbrook hosted a conversation about cyber harassment with David Margolick, Marc Randazza, Anthony Ciolli, and myself. Our discussion focused on the attacks on female law students at AutoAdmit in 2007. Here is a little background: anonymous individual...

I'm still spending time with Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.  I have another film versi on to watch (hopefully this evening), which was pro duced by the BBC and Ti me-Life Films.  I'll be curious to s ee if it follows the play more  closely than
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I am cleaning today.  That includes my car.  Here's a brief list of the things I found. - An infinite number of plastic water bottles.  Some were unopened.  Some had a sip or two taken.  This shameful mess has been emptied and recycled. - Three cardigans - Two pairs...