A few winters ago, I received a call from Marco, a friend of a friend who was in town from Spain, asking if I’d like to have dinner. Our mutual friend assured me that Marco was tall, dark and single, and that he loved to cook. Armed with ulterior motives and luscious memories of head-on […]

I miss Sara. So much so that I’ve taken to referring to her by pet names. There’s “my Sweetest” (a nod to our favorite Regina Spektor ballad I like to imitate poorly), “my New” (a classification, as she is my newest, best friend), “my Rodolfo” (Celest gave us both Tocca candles last Christmas. Mine was […]

Several weeks ago I had the privilege of attending the wedding of my two dear friends, Andrew and Carl, with my two dear friends Kimberly and Celest. I’m of the opinion that weddings are fun as long as there’s music at the reception, and a powerful showerhead in whatever hotel you’ll be staying at afterwards. […]