The Frumanista

"Just laugh," my mother insisted, when I would come home with some tale of classmate unkindness. "Whatever they say, just la...

Our world is mostly composed of couples. I suppose the world in general is. Singles are often underrepresented, like the dearth of women...

Refuah lifnei hamakah .

I can post this now that the Superbowl is over. I think.  As a female, I stereotypically do not comprehend my brothers' and nephews...

Why do you want to marry? When I went on my first date at 19, I didn't necessarily want to get married. I was 19. Someone called. I...

Whitney Cummings, comedienne, discusses her experience "hanging out with wolves" : Each wolf was doing something different. O...

So, um . . . I have dandruff .  You couldn't hear me? *Cough* sorry. Well, er . . . I have dandruff.  Nothing to be ashamed of,...

I am not a typical romantic. Gifts, eh. Chocolates, um, I would like my clothing to still fit me, thanks. After hearing a hilarious story o...

I blame "hishtadlus" for this.  Doing one's hishtadlus becomes an endless, unverified list of "musts," from makeo...

Calvin Trillin on the Scariest Word