Mi chiamano Mimi: What’s in my Mimi-esque name Growing up I was mimi. It was an endearing nickname that sounded younger and hipper than my actual name. Because I was one of very few Hispanic students when I went away to boarding school I no longer […]
Breaking the silence: Axl Rose reins king and this week’s other wacky and weird news A lot of what goes well and that goes wrong in the world is the result of setting one’s self free from societal constraints and norms. Such freedom can mean going against […]
Blindsiding in the workplace: My longstanding pet peeve I have great peripheral vision. I think it has something to do with having grown up in the South Bronx. Walking home from the subway at night meant being extremely vigilant staring ahead trying to gauge what was occurring […]
The pentagon has a zombie survival guide and there’s cocaine in the toilet: This week’s wacky news Happy spring. We are knee deep into the allergy season and a majority of us are sneezing up a storm. It may be that all that sneezing, coughing and sniffling […]
As I am excitedly starting to plan out my Australia trip for this coming summer, I am wondering what it will be like to leave Australia. Sounds strange, I know. See, I know it will be a lovely and empowering trip. I will be going to a country […]
I’m a year older: Alcohol, carbs or caffeine why must I choose? Apparently I’m getting older. I just celebrated yet another birthday (for which I am grateful) and immediately the day after, my knees started to hurt and pop loudly. The knee popping startled me as I […]
Time to put on my grannie panties When I first heard the former education secretary Margaret Spellings advise incoming White House Press Secretary Dana Perino that it was time to put on her “big girl panties” I was awestruck. I felt no better phrase captured what women […]
The helpfulness of swearing up a storm and using vibrating pills: This week’s weird news around the globe It’s another wacky week where oddities abound. However, it is mother’s day. A day where we celebrate the beauty of motherhood and the true love one has for […]
As I walk out of Grand Central station and head to work, I am bombarded with advertisements with all sorts of wild claims. Some juices cure you of Vitamin D deficiencies and some airlines have enough legroom that you can stretch out and not develop deep vein thrombosis. […]
April: I hardly knew ya but you left ghosts and dead characters in your wake The flowers are sort of blooming. The tree pollen count is starting to skyrocket. The eyes are watery and the memory a little groggy. The trains are filled with sneezes, sniffles and sighs. […]