The main problem was that Sheila didn’t remember the rules, it had been so long since she’d played, and that was with her ex-husband whom she was now trying ...

At the Halloween party itself, a large congregation in a huge, empty rehearsal space normally used for dance classes, Violet's Mata Hari did not stand out de...

Jude proudly wears her Pussy Hat though over a year has passed (!) and she is not marching this afternoon but striding down 7th Avenue on her way back to the...

While he is telling me that we are breaking up, Mark is wearing a yellow plaid shirt that I haven’t seen before. Usually it's a white shirt to catch the blon...

I am no expert on Enrique Iglesias music videos, but based on the three that are in constant rotation at the treadmills of the rocking New York Sports Club, ...

I know that Michelle has an irrational fear of houses that look like faces; she knows that I have a phobia of peanut butter getting stuck at the back of my t...

Michelle announces, “I had the weirdest dream last night.” I finally take a sip of my coffee now lukewarm; it tastes like dread. The dread I immediately feel...

My gym has not changed its rotation of music videos since 2008, so at the New York Sports Club in West Harlem Lady Gaga continues to hold her Poker Face, Jus...

When I graduated from college, my mom gave me bookends in the shapes of globes, with the inspiring instruction to fill the space between those two worlds wit...

“Kamikaze!” I blurted out just before our first kiss, suddenly remembering the name of the German Shepherd who had bitten me twenty years earlier. Mark didn’...

"The lighting in this bar is dim enough, and the frozen cosmopolitans cheap enough, that everybody here flirts with the screens of their smartphones while da...

"While Ginny roots around in her refrigerator, I try and figure out which sort of Betty will turn up at the door: a flirty Betty Boop, a brazen Bette Davis, ...

"While we were sipping our cocktails, a group of young bikini bottom-clad Parisians suddenly wandered in from the pool party next door, leaving wet footprint...