Fear of Flying

I flew this past weekend and really felt the almost desperate kindness of airline employees trying to make up for the industry’s crappy reputation.  Smiles from ear to ear.  Free sanitizing wipes and (this is what really threw me) on time departures....

Congress and Taylor Swift

Insane.  It’s also been implied that the Super Bowl is rigged in her boyfriend’s favor.  Do we need to know this?  More importantly, don’t they have bigger fish to fry?  China is invading us from the inside out.  Iran is a big bully with a deadly BB...

Skin Deep

When you’re twenty five, the focus is all on looks.  Your look.  Their look.  The in look.  The expired look. Then you hit your forties, a little less on the looks, a little more about the intelligence and/or humor factor. So why when the sixties roll around are...

Gentrifying Neighborhoods

  My partner-husband (still having trouble embracing the husband deal) twice scored big in the real estate gentrification game. Our first was with a co-op in Washington Heights that wasn’t even fit (well ok it was fit for) heroin addicts and sidewalk Sallys...

First Podcast Featuring My Vibrant Vocal Chords

  Monday / January 29 / 6:15 PM (EST) ReaderHouse Podcast with: Jeff Namian   /   Author of Occupational Studies Interview with Allie Lasher, Program Coordinator I’m not sure how or when to hear it.  I think it’s on CBS Podcast Channel but not sure....