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How can I actually blog when I’m happily busy chilling with the best lil’ cousins on the planet?

Sightings along the Jersey shore: –Chemically injected lips –A woman pushing a dog in a pink baby stroller –Junior Lifeguard Camp completing rookie boat launches –A baby [...]

When I looked at my summer 2010 calendar and realized I had time for a “vacation” alongside the 2 graduations I’m attending on this trip, I felt happy I’d get to see my family, but also a little [...]

Today I accompanied my uncle on my first ever visit to Gold’s Gym. He’s a Yale professor—not a bodybuilder—but he likes going to this gym, reviewed on Yahoo as “New Haven’s last hardcore gym,” [...]

Last night I dreamed about Apache helicopters. Before that it was Nelson Mandela wearing a gas mask. My “war” reading is seeping in. But dreams aside, today was 11 hours on the road: Michigan, [...]

Of course, in the end, they’re as beautiful as all the untold sunrises before them. The girls in their formal dresses: neatly placed bows, shimmering lavender under the stage lights, strapless [...]

If you haven’t read Michael Pollan’s latest work of nonfiction, Food Rules, chances are you’ve at least heard of it. Today I took the plunge and bought myself a copy, delighting in every insight. [...]

milieu This word is the evil cousin to the word oeuvre and, when spoken, smears a botox-petrified frown across its user’s face. This frown is the same frown people make when they realize they [...]

oeuvre Do you really want to sound like you are birthing a hardboiled egg through your mouth when you speak? That’s why you should never use this word. cardigan Even thinking this word makes me [...]

The filmmaker and I are listening to Michael Jackson’s “Billy Jean” because we’re both still high from meeting Daniel Pearl. The grill is going, steak and portabella’s primed, our signature [...]