Fantastical

For the last few weeks I may as well have been trying to ice skate in a roller rink. Contemplating alternatives to my rather disturbing effort-to-momentum ratio led me to Edward de Bono, who says: It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by [...]

Ringside at Fizz’s Genie/Bottle bust-out [pt 3]

Earlier, I described how Ms Fizz and I purged her closet; I then shared the technical and logistical challenges she felt impaired her efforts to be more stylish. Now it was time to dig a little deeper. Like many people or perhaps just me, my friend Ms Fizz looked at her clothing in aggregate one [...]

Relatable

Like many others families, the Vix Household has had QUITE a year. And by “quite” I mean way, way too many big tricks overshadowing delicious treats. In the spirit of the holiday and the proverbial picture/1000 word we’re talking: But then as Mark Knopfler wrote and Mary Chapin Carpenter so cheerily sings: When you’re rippin’ [...]

Flashy

I woke up one day last winter and realized that, apart from a short family-based trip, I hadn’t left the U.S. in 20 years. I’m still not sure how I let that happen; granted, I have a tendency to sleepwalk through my life when I’m not making fairly substantial changes but REALLY. While financially it was [...]