I met a young kid in Manhattan just the other day. I met him only because he had the best looking laptop cases I’ve ever seen in my life. It was a messenger bag, but it held tightly to the chest to create a backpack appearance and it was a beautiful brown leather. He was [...]

There is nothing that pains me more than to see a poorly named baby. It is just a horrible thing to do. The name is the first identity that a child has and it carries through their entire life. A sea of Codys, Coopers, Avas and Sophias don’t bother me it’s the odd, strange and [...]

Early on a Saturday morning a good friend of mine called to ask me if I’d like  to go look at china with her. Now it was 9:30 in the morning on a stormy Saturday. I didn’t find my way into my home until almost 3am and even over 6 hours later  the rum coma [...]

I like getting electronic gifts. I’m kind of utilitarian in my presents so I like something that I can use over and over again. Most of the gifts the hopefully-soon-to-be Mister gets for me are electronically based, accept when it is a great piece of jewelry (wink, wink, nudge, nudge). So when I set out [...]