The only way this story could get more Connecticut is if the Winklevoss twins were involved.

In my darkest moments, I aspire to have the kind of life where getting stabbed with a stiletto by an international party woman is the kind of problem I face.

I was once confused for being my father's wife. My dad looks his age and I look about ten years younger than my own. It was, by far, the most disturbing moment of my life.

And Kylie is 100000x more amazing than pretty much every other pop star out there.

We've all had our Dolores Umbridge. Mine was the vice-principal at my creepy Opus Dei school who spewed all sorts of platitudes about charity and forgiveness, but would spend most of her time finding ways to suspend/expel students that were not, in her twisted mind, worthy of the school. This ranged from asking…

I've met some good ones! It's just that when they're insufferable, they're the WORST.

It is the greatest documentary series of all time!

Wait, what is this? I want to know more about the greatest documentary series ever. No sarcasm.

I don't know. I'm getting a huge whiff of '"Philosophy, with a focus on periods prior to contemporary times, when the discipline was ruined by identity politics."

Right?? That's another thing: the whole "Papist" attitude of yore seems to have stuck in such a way that I've heard people say things like "Catholics do what the Pope says, no questions asked." Ummm, that's as ridiculous as saying "Americans do what the President says, no questions asked."

Yup! Can't say I met any sadistic albino monks though.

Let's put it this way: I'm currently working on a YA novel set in a Catholic school and I'm toning DOWN some of my anecdotes because not even the Catholics schools of my imagination could be that awful.

It's not if you are/were a practicing Catholic. I went to a super creepy Opus Dei school and even those nut jobs taught evolution.

I had my wedding in my hometown. My hometown happens to be in another country. Because of my nomadic childhood and the fact that my family is spread all over Latin America, it made sense to have my wedding in Peru. That's the reason why we had a destination wedding (although I don't know if I would even call it that…

I'm so conflicted over Mr. Worldwide. On the one hand, his music combines the worst in Latin music with the worst in American music and turns it into one big explosion of "ya tu sabe'!!!!" On the other hand, I'm really, really, really in awe of his work ethic. If I had even a tenth of it, I would be well on my way to…

I think there's a lot to say about unattainable beauty standards and aging, and the pressures women face to obtain one and diminish the other, but I don't know if the knee-jerk reaction about Renee's face was exclusively fueled on that. She doesn't look like herself and it's uncanny...as in the the Freudian definition…

I'm still gobsmacked when people ask me if Chicago is a "blue" city. Ummm... we have one of the strongest union traditions in the country, offered civil unions before gay marriage was on the radar of many East Coast states, boast a pretty large African-American and Latino population, and saw the rise of one Barack…

Former New Yorker, current Chicagoan, and I miss the Big Apple less and less. I think when you live there you get sucked into this delusion that everyone's lives are interesting, and artistic, and buzz-worthy, and people feel the need to perpetuate that myth. But the truth of the matter is that peoples have…

Yeah, news of egg-freezing benefits struck me as being less about reproductive options and more about corporations forcing women to sacrifice their maternal aspirations for the bottom-line. Color me unimpressed.

"She seemed totally cool—until the first flag was her actually being on my roof two weeks ago"