Kiva loans

I have microlent to:

Jazmines Group


Jazmines Group
Location:Bolivia,
Activity:Services

Hem Sovann


Hem Sovann
Location:Cambodia, Batambong
Activity:Services

Botros


Botros
Location:Lebanon, Beirut
Activity:Grocery Store

February! [shakes a fist]

By god, do I hate February.

February is the absolutely nadir of the year for me, thanks to the most ridiculously acronymed disorder ever, Seasonal Affective Disorder. Or, yes, SAD. Cripes.

January is usually tolerable—maybe I’m a little more tired and crabby than usual—and March is the light-at-the-end-of-tunnel, finish-line-is-within-sight month, but February? February is the [...]

My secret (breakfast) food shame:

My last secret food shame post is over two years old (and is the most commented post on this blog), so I think it’s time to confess another:

Not even Golden Grahams but knockoff Malt-O-Meal version Golden Grahams. “Don’t eat the fake Golden Grahams,” my husband will warn my kid. “They’re Mama’s. And you don’t want [...]

Summer brings a lot of things to NYC.

Some of these things are good.

Public pools. Outdoor movies. The free ferry to Governors Island, with its green lawns and panoramic views of the city, like so:

Gosh, isn’t that nice? Go ahead, click the photo to see it up close.

Well, come on back from your happy place now, because summer also brings some not-so-good things [...]

Too hot to blog today.

This picture of my sister’s dog, Lulu, really says everything you need to know about today, the first day of 90-plus degree temperatures so far this summer.

I’ll return with something more interesting later this week, but meanwhile, I’ve put up a new poll for you to answer. I’ve been sticking to a twice-weekly posting format [...]

I made pizza! It was easy! And it didn’t suck!

A couple of years ago, we were living in Massachusetts and squirreling every dime in the hopes of moving to New York. The pizza delivery guy was a distant, dim memory from the days of frivolous purchases like take-out, cable TV, or new underwear. Desperate for pizza, I labored over a batch of dough, then [...]