Gentle Reader,

Before I write the next post, before I reply to your invigorating comments and emails, please let me explain my absence.

I’ve been busy — buzzingly, boundingly busy. Five lovely hours spent being the witness at my friend’s wedding followed by an Italian lunch on India Street, four visits to an ailing uncle in a [...]

La Roxy walks into a bar.

She’s stranded in a distant land and in dire need of:

1) the antidote to the venom of the snake that just bit her2) an emergency loan to buy a tire because she has a flat and only 47.50 foofis (about $18) to her name3) honest input, because she’s really aching [...]

As far as gender is concerned, one limitation of this experiment is that it’s one sided. I can’t turn myself into a man and see how people react, and I didn’t collaborate with a man to ask the same question, in the same way, to the same person, and see if the results were different. [...]

Five factoids:

1. When men earn more than their wives do, they’re happier. And it can’t just be a little more income — there has to be a big gap for a husband to feel “satisfaction.” (Source: Study cited in Tuesday’s WSJ.)

2. Women don’t receive promotions, opportunities, responsibilities, privileges, exceptions, perks and benefits because… they don’t [...]

Today I got an email that made me jump for joy. Here it is, in its entirety:
Wow, asking does work. Just got $400 a month taken off rent by sending 1 email. You are truly an inspiration.

Sent from a dear friend, aka my sister’s boyfriend! Like so many people affected by these particularly [...]