Some of you may remember my post from Hannukah last year, in which I shed all my Jewish inhibitions about decorating for the season, and decided to go all out celebrating "the festival of light."

My (modern) orthodox rabbi, after all, signed off on it; and no less an...

Goodbye, grilled Chicken Heart Brochettes. Goodbye to the Weekly Cocktail; goodbye, Short Ribs Braised in Coffee Anchillo Chile Sauce; goodbye to that delicious chimichurri-to-go from an amazing street vendor at Tenth and 204th Street.

Goodbye, Gourmet.

Perhaps you aren't taking the sudden shuttering of Gourmet magazine quite as hard as...

Sorry but I couldn't resist--it's just too easy. A proposed playlist for the John Edwards-Rielle Hunter nuptials:

"Squirm"

"Lying in the Hands of God"

"Crush"

"My Baby Blue"

"Time Bomb"

"Pig"

"What Would You Say"

"Too Much"

"I Did It"

"Typical Situation"

"Where Are You Going?"

and of course, "Gravedigger."

On my kitchen bulletin board is a 2" X 4" photo of a beautiful blond woman flashing a radiant smile. Sometimes the photo goes missing under a school notice or a temporary "art installation"--but the photo is never removed. It was first pinned up...

One day many years ago, as my husband and I strolled through the streets of Milan, he posed this still-puzzling observation: What is it with Italian men? One day they are strapping, tall and handsome in quilted coats; the next they are hunched over, cap-wearing old men playing bocce in...

I always feel sorry for husbands on the morning after these political sex scandals break. How many thousands of dark looks are being exchanged across breakfast tables?

"Where were you just now?"

"Upstairs, shaving."

"And where were you before that?"

"In the shower."

"And before that?"

"For goodness sakes, you...

Just the other day I asked my 15-year-old son if he'd like to visit the National Holocaust Museum. He had a few days between the end of school and the launch of his summer plans. Our last visit to the museum has become something of a family "joke": A decade...

Over the past month or so, producers of two different reality show projects contacted me about series they planned to set in Washington, D.C. (where I live). In fact, there seems to be a multitude of reality show producers prowling the city, scouting all kinds of Capitol "types" -- young,...

After posting my blog about Mary Ann Glendon yesterday, I was going to wade into the comment section, knife in teeth, to defend myself against the criticism from conservative readers that quickly went up. But then I began to receive emails from my Catholic friends who, more gently and...

I am a longtime admirer of Mary Ann Glendon, a former Ambassador to the Holy See as well as a scholar and innovative thinker on women's issues. However, I was gobsmacked by her recent decision to refuse a prestigious award from Notre Dame because, as she discovered, she would have...

About a month ago, my husband presented me with the new Kindle. It was not a gift, exactly. If there has ever been an issue in our marriage that might conceivably lead to divorce, it's my treatment of books. Or rather, it's his view of my treatment of books.

He...

I hope readers won't think I'm disingenuous in my pledge if I nominate someone else to perform the community service: my dog.

Off and on over the past eleven years, I've accompanied our 110-pound English Labrador Cobber on visits to the sick, the handicapped, and the disturbed. I've never had...

"Are you a...are you a..."

The man was so drunk he could barely get the words out. He shut his eyes and with fierce effort managed to splutter:

"Are you a wife or a prostitute?"

Ah, the glamor of inaugural balls! The intimate mingling amongst the thousands who have come...

Google "Hannukah Decorations" and you'll come up with only a slightly less lame selection of foil dreidels and plastic menorahs that you'll find stuck in the back corner of your local CVS.

I don't say this resentfully: Jews themselves tend to be ambivalent about their trumped up competitor to...

I HATE TO pull rank here. But it seems I am almost the only Republican still standing who can criticize Sarah Palin without being accused by my fellow conservatives of suffering from an "elite education. "

Peggy Noonan, David Brooks, Christopher Buckley, Kathleen Parker and [my husband] David Frum have...

Danielle Crittenden's 1905 house in Washington, D.C. has been undergoing a major renovation for the past year (and off and on for over a decade). In the final installment of this weekly HuufPo series, Danielle records what it has been like for her and her family to live through the...

Danielle Crittenden's 1905 house in Washington, D.C. has been undergoing a major renovation for the past year (and off and on for over a decade). In this weekly HuufPo series, Danielle records what it has been like for her and her family to live through the construction with their builders,...

Danielle Crittenden's 1905 house in Washington, D.C. has been undergoing a major renovation for the past year (and off and on for over a decade). In this second-to-last installment of her series, Danielle records what it has been like for her and her family to live through the construction with...

Danielle Crittenden's 1905 house in Washington, D.C. has been undergoing a major renovation for the past year (and off and on for over a decade). In this weekly summer series, which appears weekends on HuffPo, Danielle records what it has been like for her and her family to live through...

Last night I thought sleepily: If Michelle Obama is going to speak to the women of America, she better darn well do it before 10 pm [ET]. As 10 p.m. came and went, I grappled for the remote and was about to turn off the television when her bio video...