It seems like a simple quest: I’d like to find a decent pair of brown leather boots. The qualifications are basic – heel not too high or too skinny, OK to wear with jeans or skirts, must have a little personality.  I’ve looked online, ...

Don’t you love those creative communities where everyone is knitting their own clothes, reconfiguring bicycles so they don’t need cars, growing organic food, etc? They make me itch. I’d love to have a half-teaspoon of the creativity that hangs ...

It’s mid-November. Winter is upon us. And there’s only a snowball’s chance in Mexico City that I’ll get the vacation that was dangled before me just a few weeks ago. I want revenge. I’m tired of being skittish about the economy, ...