There it is, a great green monolith rising like a tectonic plate pushing out of the earth’s crust. In this flat city of few views, its 12 stories might as […]
The (Civil) Society Column
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CBGB fever
THERE AREN’T many occasions that my mother’s green polyester wraparound halter top appears in public. This midriff–bearing shmata shows way too much skin for a somewhat respectable grown woman. I […]
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Chaos in the park
A ROUND OF APPLAUSE to all the new SCAD grads out there! Thanks for leaving all kinds of slightly–used goodies in the lanes when you moved out — what didn’t […]
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All Hail The Geeks
FIRST OFF, many thanks to those Connect readers who voted me Best Local Blogger in our last issue. Eightish years ago, when my youngest child still had all the heft […]
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Back to the drawing board?
Sheesh, it’s been a bad season for chalk. Last week’s column talked about the arrest of a young man who scribbled his powdery protest against corporate capitalism on the sidewalk […]
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Thou Cannot Protest Too Much
I must admit I enjoy a good riot. Not the violence, of course. Or the property damage. But there’s something tremendously exciting about people passionate enough to take to the […]
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Word from a mother
Heads up, Mother’s Day is this Sunday. That should give the pathetic ingrates among ye enough time to get a card in the mail, or at least enter an alert […]
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Food Glorious Food
Recently at lunch, a friend lobbed a terrible insult my way: “You know what? You’re a food snob.” I almost choked on my organic arugula. Sure, I can spend an […]
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Great Scot!
Nothing reduces me to a tittering fool like a Scottish brogue. Really, if those Nigerian bank scammers could do a decent Sean Connery imitation, they’d have my life savings in […]
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Drowning in the details
Lately, every time I look at water, something akin to terror begins to creep along my spine. You might think my fears stem from the bigass bull shark my husband […]
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The women who keep on telling
Get three Jewish mothers in one room and there’s bound to be kvetching (complaining), kvelling (bragging about the kids) and some good, hard laughter. There was plenty of all when […]