Gotta Love McDonald’s PR

When my sister handed me this flier from McDonald’s and said, “Look what I got in the mail today,” I was totally uninterested because A) You couldn’t pay me enough to eat fast food and B) I’m not a coffee or iced coffee drinker. But before I could tell her how much I didn’t care [...]

That Circle of Life Crap Never Turns Out Good in the End

I consider myself somewhat of a pen connoisseur. As a journalist, I’ve carried a notebook and pen in my handbag since college, and I’m a real snob when it comes to my writing instruments. Everywhere I go, I’m jotting down notes and ideas, and having the right pen is like wearing the right underwear: Get [...]

Some of My Best Work

We’ve been trying to clean out the garage at my mom’s house for like, 10 years — no, longer than that. My family used to live in Germany and we moved back to U.S. in 1997, which actually means that we’ve had untouched boxes sitting in our garage for 12 years. At this point, I [...]

The Closet: What to Wear to a BBQ

Thanks for hanging with us as we continue to make changes to The Closet series. There’s no video this month (after the camera debacle we had) but check out the photos below and marvel at the totally amazing sketches I did in Paint. *** It’s still raining in our neck of the woods, but that’s [...]

Over and Out

Helloooo Readers, The last time we filmed an episode of The Closet, we had a little debacle with the video camera — it basically stopped working. Luckily, we made it though the “Hijab With Earrings” episode, but the episode for May was captured in a series of photographs; we skipped shooting in April. The Closet [...]