I’ve Got a Gut Feeling … The Path to Colonoscopy Chic

Fall’s hottest accessory? Though monogrammed Goyard luggage and lizard Gucci clutches are undeniably important, this season’s most vital accessory is definitely a healthy, sparkling colon. Everyone who is anyone in Manhattan is having their bowels cleansed, scrutinized and even photographed. Colonoscopy parties will soon be replacing Botox parties! Between Katie Couric’s cancer-screening campaign and Sharon Read More

Blame Mother Nature When Girls Run Wild-I Know, I Did It Too

You’ve probably heard about Thirteen . It’s the movie about a 13-year-old girl, Tracy, who falls under the spell of a femme fatal named Evie, a racy, lawless girl who comports herself like a 20-year-old. Having been a well-behaved child, Tracy hooks up with a drug-abusing, tongue-piercing, orgy-throwing crowd. By the end of the film, Read More

Two Words for the ‘Friendly Skies’: Bye, Bye!

Trying to defeat the terrorists in my own small way, I’ve gone about my business, traveling a good deal since Sept. 11. The first few trips were uneventful, but then I ran into a blitzkrieg of perturbations on land and air. The airlines in particular–having done their best to make the skies unfriendly even before Read More

I Do Not Go Gently Into the Night

By any measure, the tiny slice of ocean on which I spend

July and August is a corner of paradise. It’s my aural environment, my sensurround: I listen day and night to its restless,

constantly changing song, from even-tempered purr to the angry thrashing of a

storm. And when I say day and night, I Read More