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Blossom Time
Some people simply cannot let it go. Take, for example, my friend Hiram, who called me, from Minneapolis, day before yesterday. He was busy at his desk. (I could hear the shuffling of papers in the...
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If You Play (Group), Do You Have to Pay?
Here’s a real-life conundrum from a friend in Virginia. (Let’s call him “Prentice.” Let’s call his wife “Leticia.”) Since Prentice and Leticia have a two-year-old (let’s call her “Brandoline”),...
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Hold Off on Holden
J.D. Salinger died on January 27th. Can’t we give him a rest? The life of a genius recluse holds a lurid fascination. Salinger wrote The Catcher in the Rye, a book that, once it’s been read – from...
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Bride-elled Passions
It’s not quite March, but already the clanging of wedding bells can be heard in the distance. Already, in some cases, they’re clanging out of tune. Witness the extremely public example of Washington...
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A Face in the Crowd
I had absolutely no idea who you were, the other night at a cocktail party. It was probably my mother’s fault. Sometime last week, NPR reported “the results of a recent scientific study” indicating...
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Worked Over
Here’s an inquiry from a Facebook Friend Sometimes when you see someone in person after you haven’t seen them in a long time, you might not recognize them right away. Whether we want to admit it or...
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FORK IT OVER
My friend Minerva is fed up with her cousins. To put it more precisely, she’s fed up with the way they feed each other. The cousins (let’s call them Calvin and Blanche, since, having actual names of...
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Talking Pictures
The cover story in this month’s Vanity Fair purports to be about Grace Kelly — at least that’s the way things look if you’re giving a cursory browse to the racks at the airport news stand. But the real...
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Lest We Not Be Included…
It’s wedding time, and the invite business, sticky-note-wise and otherwise, is already bedecking the break-room bulletin boards. One, fiercely engraved, says: Mr. and Mrs. Herrick Kinsley Postough...
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To the Manners Born
Elizabeth Post, the doyenne-by-default of the Emily Post etiquette dynasty, died, week before last, on April 24. Her age was held to be 89, a semi-rumor that she never fully credentialed. She died in...
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