Today I met my friend's adopted daughter.  She and her husband are family friends of ours through my aunt and uncle (they all went to college together), and this is their second daughter.  Both were adopted from China, from different orphanages hours and miles and miles apart.

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I've spent every year since 2002 coming into and out of New York. In for school, out for summer break, staying for post-college work, out to Spain to teach abroad, back for summer work, out to England for school. And now, I'm back in the city before I start a new… Read full post »

Tonight's SNL pulled out all the stops. For the first time in months (years), nearly every skit was thought-out and funny, and only a few were in totally bad taste. The semi-reunion of the nineties and early naughties (female) cast left me overwhelmed by a feeling of nostalgia and warmth.… Read full post »

Neither slush nor salt nor plows nor heavy duty tires shall keep us from our snow news.

Snow news is to adulthood as the snow day is to childhood: a reliable winter staple, reassuringly cozy, delightfully unchanging. The best parts of a childhood snow day are sledding until you're soaked,… Read full post »

Today's news about Medine Memi, the Turkish 16-year-old buried alive by her father and grandfather as a punishment for talking to boys, is bloodcurdling. I have been reading the story over and over, wondering how any kind of rage or amount of hatred could prompt this act. For one relative to… Read full post »

The most thrilling to happen in gay rights news this week (hell, this year) is the long-awaited broadcast of the Prop 8 trial. It certainly isn't the proposed repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell, since that obviously overdue act keeps getting stalled indefinitely.

As first reported by the the San… Read full post »

Why does it pay off to pull reckless stunts on Wall Street but not on Main Street?

 I don't know, POTUS. Why does your voice change from your own dignified, smoky purr to a more spitty, folksy, exclamatory cry every time you want to seem optimistic?

 Alright, enough being down on… Read full post »