You think you do -— but you really don’t know what a princess is. Yes, a princess is fussy, needs frequent manicures, likes cute cocktail napkins, and never, ever takes the first seat she’s offered in a restaurant. But a true princess is also the one who leads the charge (usually metaphorically) when her kingdom is in peril. A princess takes care of her...

“For free, take; for buy, waste time.” So said Arthur Godfrey, a popular TV show personality back in the 50s and the inspiration for the ego-maniacal “Lonesome” Rhodes (Andy Griffith) in the classic film A Face in the Crowd. And while the wisdom of “The Old Redhead” is more than questionable (the man played the ukulele, for...

I have this mountain of work piled up on my desk, but my horoscope says: “Sit back and watch the world go by today.” Hmm. As an Aquarius, I tend to take these things seriously. So what’s a girl to do? The horoscope adds that even though the sun is about to leave my birth sign (oh no!), I should not try to “cram in as much extra work as...

Every writer has a “bad story” story. This is mine. Back in the day, I co-wrote, along with a friend as misguided as I, an unsolicited script for a radio show. We called it The 13th Floor, and since we didn’t know what we were doing, the title was probably the best thing about it. We were young and we needed the money. My friend Mary & I, who...

What’s for dinner? Tonight we are having a $3000 stew. Well, actually, it’s only $2895.97, not counting the spices. But who’s counting. It started with the stove. The old one was, well, old, and looked really dated. Those little plate things under the burners were burnt, and the burners beyond burnt. I could have ignored all this (denial in the...

Remember the post on Bravehearts: Men in Skirts, an exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art?  It was kinda long: the piece, not the skirts. So now, here’s a new, shorter version just in time for St. Patrick’s Day. Men wearing skirts is nothing new. Besides kilts, there have been caftans, saris, and sarongs, not to mention loincloths (think of them...

Okay, so it’s Defending the Caveman. Man, as in Rob Becker, who wrote the play. Man as in Paul Perroni, who performs it on — or pretty close to — Broadway. But I am the woman whose life it changed the first time I saw it, more than 10 years ago. Here’s the thing: you know how men leave their laundry on the floor? And how pissed you get about that?...

So when you achieve it, you’re practically speechless. Words, as they say (using words, of course) cannot express such feelings. But I’ll try. Would you believe that the very same person who couldn’t find anything in her own apartment (I’ve Lost It !) and threatened to hire the detectives of Law & Order to find all the MII’s ...