If only I had consulted the internet before today. There are so many posts on how to tell someone they smell. For months there has been a smelly au pair at my gym. I have tried to ignore it but I can’t. Whenever I see this poor girl anywhere in town, I… Read full post »

            General William Howe courtesy of Google Images.

 Elizabeth Loring is cited in some contemporary history books on the American Revolution with a small sentence that she was General William Howe’s mistress during his active… Read full post »

Elijah Boardman, Ralph Earl -Metropolitan Museum of Art.

I went to see my old crush, Revolutionary War veteran Elijah Boardman, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art last week.  I have been thinking about him lately since I have started researching writing a book on New Jersey&rsquo… Read full post »

After the fire, I stopped by and promised the owners, Bob and Liz and their friends, that I would write a post about the burning of our town’s only record store. That was two months ago and this is the first time that I have sat down to put their… Read full post »

 
I had a breakfast meeting today with old friends and networking colleagues. The restaurant was a precious brunch place in a suburban New Jersey town. The chain is called, Turning Point.

When I saw this door out of the corner of my eye as I left the… Read full post »

 I was here at the ARE* in New York City psychic fair for just one thing. I wanted to have a meeting with a woman, Frances A. Smolkowski**, who made intuitive readings of people using the art form of collage. My close friend, Wendy, had had an intuitive reading with her… Read full post »

my suburned belly

My belly is red hot tonight. I only spent three minutes in the tanning booth. I have had almost 46 years of having a white stomach which has had minimal exposure to the sun. I need a tan. The very young women at the tanning… Read full post »

“I saw the skinny cardiologist today and he is very sure of himself and refused to listen to me so I told him that my worst date ever was with a guy from his class at med school 25 years ago. Wendy, this guy didn’t listen either. We went to Atlantic… Read full post »

I picked the up etiquette book, Everyday Etiquette by Patricia Rossi, because I wanted to know one thing. What do the “experts” say about “unfriending” on Facebook. In this case the answer was in a hastily added Q&A in the back of the book.

 (d) What is the best way… Read full post »

 I was terrified driving to the cardiologist. My friend had checked out his credentials on line the night before. She even did a tarot card reading. This man, who I was about to meet, was going to have a long happy relationship with me and/or become my husband.… Read full post »

 This was my first post on OS dated May 4, 2010. I had no comments or rates. My city friends laughed and I was thrilled to have something on the internet. It was the first high...so much easier to explain the way I saw the my  suburban life.

 I… Read full post »

My mother paused before she pushed the door open to the chemotherapy treatment room and said in an excited voice "Maybe Carol will be here today.”  We first met Carol three months ago on my mother’s first day of chemotherapy. On that day, I had walked into the room carrying… Read full post »

Last month I bought my grave site in an ancient church yard. It is actually two places for “cremains”.   After I read Mary Roach’s Stiff-The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, I walked around for two weeks looking at everyone as if they were meat half… Read full post »

I found myself seated in the Hilton Woodbridge, New Jersey conference room at a table with entrepreneurs from China, Philly, India and Thailand (by way of North Carolina). This was the 2011 Innovates Conference organized by Jeanne Gray, publisher and founder of NJ Entrepreneur.  I knew I was in… Read full post »

It has been obsessively busy around the house these last few weeks. After taking a nine year sabbatical to be a stay at home mother, I have started working again from my home. This wasn’t what I had in mind. I was hoping to get dressed up, put make-up on and… Read full post »

I have reconciled myself to the fact that my posts make many people uncomfortable. Perhaps I am giving voice to questions about suburban life and marriage that are better left unsaid . I have a screen name but Snarkychaser is hardly anonymous since it is linked to my profiles on Face… Read full post »

I met my friend, who asked to be called Natalie, or maybe Donna in this post for dinner this weekend. She marveled at my perfectly straight hair. I divulged that I had just gotten a Brazilian Blowout. Natalie/Donna and I both have full thick curly hair. Natalie/Donna gets her hair blown… Read full post »

Seven years ago I bought some ancient bronze Roman rings from a little antique shop in Red Bank, NJ. The rings had been dug up in Bulgaria and were dated 1^st century. I love these rings and wear them all the time. They have a green patina and are so worn… Read full post »

A blog dedicated to a Diet Coke addict would be very boring. Do you really want to know about the hole in my heart that drives me to consume the ridiculous quantities of caffeine and chemicals that I do? I don’t, that is why I deny it in the addiction of… Read full post »

Salon really did it this time…They have renamed their “Sexiest Man” feature as "Salon's Men on Top". Do these editors have any idea that they have just excluded a very important segment of the male population? Pot bellied men will have certain difficulty to be on top... yet…… Read full post »

A friend noticed that I was not wearing my wedding ring in a photo. He noted that he used to work for a married woman who would take off her ring, and go out with girl friends to see if she still had what it took. The subject of the wearing… Read full post »

OK my husband is not exactly Don Draper…He is an executive in advertising… but the geeky research part. He is surrounded by beautiful women… but he is very cognizant of the unfair power he has being the boss and would be too ethical to cheat with them. I did ask one… Read full post »

I now pay attention to the synchronicities that occur in my life. I have had so many unusual "blasts for my past" happen this year. Perhaps it is because I grew up in New York City that my path has intersected with so many people that continue to make… Read full post »

Last Saturday, my friend Wendy was volunteering at the A.R.E. Psychic Fair in New York City.  She was going to work from 12- 6 for the duration of two shifts of practitioners. I have never been to a psychic fair but have always wanted to, so how could I resist?… Read full post »