Statement from Betsy Perry regarding the piece below:

One of the challenges for any blogger is to write fast, write short, and get people to find your way of thinking sharp and funny. No question that my post today was written too fast, wasn't short enough, and turned out to...

Within one 18-hour period I went to a dinner party where Noel Coward and New Yorker articles were discussed and then went to a luncheon where Proust was the subject; I tried desperately to contribute but could not find the material needed so clogged is my brain with topical trivia...

It's 6:30 am. Coffee and the paper. My mind is whirling already. Yes, exercise class at 9. No, got to write, will exercise later. Wait, going to a party tonight and hair needs blowing out. No luncheon today maybe that's when I should exercise. Need to deal with boring insurance...

Microsoft for dummies? That's me and you can bet this dummy dragged her Roger Vivier patent leather shoes very reluctantly over to spend a day with 75 high school girls — all of whom got a get-out-of-school-free card to learn about the tech field and why they should consider it...

The only thing more horrifying than not finding enough raisins in my muffin this morning is watching the House Committee interrogate Geithner and Bernanke as if they were raw meat thrown to wolves. Maybe the only benefit is that the whole world gets to see how what bullies those in...

Bernie Madoff should feel guilt. AIG should feel guilt and so should Chris Cox and Dick Fuld and all those other bandits. But should I feel guilty for being on vacation? After almost two weeks in South Beach, my brain cells have hunkered down and gone into hiding and even...

So I'm riding up in my elevator with Dr. Mitch Rosenthal, the legendary drug and psychiatric czar of Phoenix House, and his dog Prozac - and yes that's the name author and sex crimes prosecutor Linda Fairstein has given Jesse in her books (we all live in the same building)...

I was all set to write about dating during a recession and how I'd rather stay home and watch Law and Order re-runs than date but this morning's breakfast hosted by Portfolio magazine at "21" and serving up Bernie Madoff on a hot plate was clearly worth morning mascara and...

I'm still dying for those beige suede Vanessa Noel boots which are now selling for $800 albeit down from $1600 but here's the thing - I won't pay that price and they won't budge (I could get almost three round trips on Jet Blue to Ft. Lauderdale for...

God bless you Dr. Phil for ranting against octuplet-mom and saving me from the inner turmoil I struggle with wondering how anyone could be so self indulgent at our expense these days. And by the way, has no one picked up on her rhinoplasty aka nose job, plumped up...

The other night at the ballet I was startled to see my former best friend; now a virtual stranger to me, I was only able to say hello before I ran out of words and emotions. What shocks me is that for 40 years we shared school days and married...

The following post is my response as a former Cosmopolitan editor to an upcoming book, written up in Page Six Wednesday, trashing former Cosmo top editor Helen Gurley Brown.

Two mentors changed my life: Michael R. Bloomberg and Helen Gurley Brown. A strange combo? Not really — one taught...

Mojitos may cost $2 in Vietnam and you can get a shirt copied for $15 but they also munch on Minnie's, Toto's, Lassie's and all sorts of dog, in fact anything that moves or breathes or walks and has a tail or fur. So how could I ever like that...

So I was headed out this morning in my shiny red raincoat and Hermes scarf on the way to fancy Upper East Side hair stylist Joseph at the Thomas Morrissey salon (as in everyone who used to go to Kenneth goes here) and I stopped in at the ATM machine...

Perhaps the only time you can count on a New Yorker's mouth being open without words coming out is at the dentist. And so it was as I sat for an hour while cute and single Dr. Michael Apa bleached my teeth and I tried to make legible sentences all...

So lucky duck that I am, I found someone very clever who suggested the perfect job for me; the negative is trading Betsy Perry self time — sit-in-bed-read-the-newspapers-go-to-the-gym-play-with-the-chihuahua time — for serious full time badge-in-badge-out time. But it's a good thing, as Martha Stewart would say and the consulting world...

Enough of Sarah Palin; I just knew she'd never be happy staying in Alaska after having been to all those other fun states, flown in a private jet, had hair and make up done and someone else to carry her Samsonite and baby sit those kids with room service chicken...

The Mac is definitely not back and less than 12 hours after Obama's win, it was clear Manhattan's mood had lifted like a successful launch at Cape Canaveral. Gone was the fear of finding moose burgers on menus and hearing sentence structure so mangled that Strunk and White seemed the...

No more talk about being "estranged" from your wife: 'fess up, you just want some action on the side and you'll never divorce her. And yet single women still gravitate to married men often simply in search of a little attention and maybe, a warm body - holidays not included.

It better be temporary because New Yorkers are used to a type A life and right now the oomph seems to have disappeared from the city. The only language you don't hear on Fifth Avenue is English and the only languages you do hear on Bergdorf Goodman's couture floor seem...