This morning’s report on BBC World News and today’s NYT front page article confirms what I’ve been praying for: a bipartisan agreement in California “that imposes the most sweeping controls on carbon dioxide emissions in the nation, putting the state at the forefront of a broad campaign to curb the man-made causes of climate […]

everytime someone sets foot in my house, i offer up a bag of books much like how a mother offers up a second helping of pasta. you’re not eating becomes you’re not reading, and it’s just another way for me to get the 100+ books off my floor and into your hands. last night […]

there are things that i love. toenails painted pink, blush flowers, lilacs, wind chimes, a soft cookie, the sound of water, and the late evening, when the sky is painted a deep blue and we find ourselves in the gloaming. i often dream about water, having a house on a lake and i’d walk […]

I looked up from my book and saw the most beautiful man. His eyes were that unreal blue, the kind of blue you see in oceans and in gloss magazines. i squinted and as i leaned in, i noticed his tan was unreal too, and I wanted to poke the places under his neck that […]

How do you know if a produce is safe and free of harmful chemicals? How do you know that when you spray various bathroom cleaners in your tub you won’t either a. pass out from the toxic fumes b. blow up your house because you’re mixing chemicals c. all of the above. You know […]

this week an office-mate-cum-friend invited me to an office goodbye party outing, which would take place today, after work, in a bar. i saw the email invite and the list of names, basically strangers, and immediately wanted to crawl under my desk, close the door and say, oh no, i simply cannot go.
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“Without the federal government committing the United States to the same goals as the rest of the developed world, progress everywhere will be halting — and there’s zero chance of the kind of international consensus that will be required to persuade China and India to follow a more benign energy path…” who said environmentalists were […]

i firmly believe choice is ruining my life. i have a couple of thousand books in my apartment and i sometimes stand in my living room, on the verge of apoplexy, wondering what i’ll read next. i pull unread books off the shelf, thumb through a few pages and put it back in lamentation […]

this past weekend was nothing short of extraordinary. these city girls dropped everything, packed our pillows, our sneakers, and trashy magazines, and headed to connecticut for movie watching, pizza-eating (thank god for pepe’s pizza in fairfield, formerly only in new haven), hiking and very necessary bonding. we accumulated in my dear friend’s spacious condo, […]

miss chub is a little trimmer these days, i’ll have you know. new photographs are on the way!

From New Pages:
There’s a lot of variety in these average-sized, unspiralled pages—from the elegance of Paul Yoon’s “So That They Do Not Hear Us” to the humor of Ladette Randolph’s wonderful “The Girls” to the stark descriptions of Natasha Radojcic’s “You Don’t Have To Live Here.” No single characteristic defines the stories other than […]

California on brink of global warming breakthrough…
start worrying about yellow tail and your next shiraz…
The Lobbyist Wears Prada: Not really, but maybe someday…. Environmental Defense Legislative Director Elizabeth Thompson put her dreams of being a fashion designer on hold, and the planet is the big winner. An aspiring fashionista growing up, Thompson now works on […]

reading my dear friend alex’s terrific post, it got me thinking about how, in this day and age when nothing is hardly taboo, people are still funny about money. from my first college internship, we were warned against discussing hourly wages to when i started the analyst program at chase and moved on to morgan […]