I hate to fly. No, really. I’m not just a little scared. I don’t just not like flying. I am terrified of it. I know it’s a fear that I share with many people, but with all due respect, my fear kicks ALL of y’all’s butts. Don’t believe me? Has your fear of flying ever made you cancel a vacation [...]

Shopping for the perfect bikini, much like finding the perfect parking spot, is a delicate art. Both can start out on a fairly to wildly positive note only to go quickly, fantastically awry. For bikini shopping, that moment may happen as soon as you find yourself stark naked in the dressing room. Horrible lighting, indulging a little more than usual [...]

One of my many weekend trips home over the past few months wasn’t by Amtrak or Peter Pan bus, but rather the Metro North train from Grand Central to New Haven. It was the plan for Brian to get to New Haven around 6 PM, around the time I’d be arriving, and then driving back to Rhode Island together after [...]

As I ride from NYC to Providence on the 4:30 PM *scheduled* bus that finally departed Port Authority at 5:20 PM, I am once again reminded that, while it is possible to travel from one city to the other, it is most often impossibly difficult. I don’t have a car in the city, so these are my options for traveling [...]