Author Archives: kris

The bar

I am a traditional woman. I know that the cheap, excessive Pinot and the three-legged animal might lead you to think otherwise, but I’m about as traditional as they come. With some things. If I could bring us back to the days of cotillions and dance cards, I would, although I’d pre-populate said card with [...]

Tags: wine and hookers

I’m in love with my therapist. Not in lust love, as that would not be at all appropriate, but love love, like you are with good friends. I’m referring to the ones who know better than to buy you anything with puffy paint on it and those who remember you’re allergic to shellfish. She’s a [...]

Call it a day

On that day I felt like a woman on Oprah. Not the good kind of being a woman on Oprah, a woman who happens to visit for O’s Favorite Things and squeals like she’s never once received a present when Oprah introduces her to cashmere. No, this was the other kind of being a woman on [...]

In reality

I read some of the reserved women of the Interwebs, some with cropped hair and wide patterned headbands and others with perfect kitchens and flourless recipes, and I wonder why I’m just so different from them. I wonder why they portray their lives as pictures of perfection, display windows of the 50s, why everything seems wrapped [...]

34

I’m 35 today. No streamers needed, although confetti is always nice. Confetti and lots of wine.
I’m not sure why, but 35 seems like a pivotal year, mostly because it’s halfway to 70. Every time I think of my new age I automatically multiply it by 2. I am then unfailingly pleased that I never got [...]

Awakening

I watched the election aftermath from a hotel room in Waco, Texas, just about the last place I thought I would be to bear witness. Somehow I pictured that I’d be home in DC, that I’d hear kids setting off small fireworks in the streets while I toasted the television with a better red than [...]

The biggest day

Did you vote? If you haven’t, stop reading blogs and get out there. If you did, what was your experience? If you decided not to vote, why? I’m interested to hear your stories today.
Also, I’m so excited I could pop. It’s finally here.

All in favor

I voted yesterday. I was a panic attack waiting to happen on the way there, what with the Twitter tales of three-hour-long waits and broken pencils and other horrors. I will say that I drove around 4th St NW looking for parking for at least 25 minutes, around and around and then around once again, [...]

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