The Frumanista

I like being helpful, to be "a useful engine indeed," to quote from Thomas the Tank Engine . But there are times when my help isn...

I know all the lyrics to the extended theme song of "Pinky and the Brain."  . . . This twilight campaign,  Is easy to expla...

In my teenage youth, I loathed makeup. I found it false, and worse, an effort .  Yet here I stand before the bathroom mirror, 90 minute...

"You really can tell a person's character from up here, you know?"  My shulmate nodded, smiling knowingly. Us womenfolk h...

Those that know me also know I am not crazy about the word "exercise." It sounds so official. It seems synonymous with "gym ...

Golly, how I have missed you.  I know it is not fair of me, but I shan't enlighten my audience just yet about the current state of ...

I'm sure my audience knows that I wouldn't neglect the blog unless something was up.  And something is up. Two somethings, actu...

The Hungarians have a . . . well, how shall I put it? We are known for liking pretty, opulent things. Aesthetic complex? Although I don...

Anything by Austen is automatic Shidduch Lit, because it describes a time when courtship and marriage consisted of rules and regulations (...