What Would Phoebe Do?

Left the deer, groundhogs, rabbits, fox(es) and raccoon(s) behind for urban errands. Lucky WWPD readers, today's observations about huma...

Wilhelm Marr, the man who coined the phrase "anti-Semitism" in 1879, came to embrace/launch said ideology despite - or because of?...

Noooo !!!! Slate is asking parents to send in letters their kids have sent them from sleepaway camp. The trend in overshare parenting wri...

-As someone who both is intermarried and studies intermarriage ( the backstory ), I read with interest this account of a couple, Helen Kim ...

-In the guise of a beauty post, here's an interesting career trajectory narrative. What privilege can do, and what's required of th...

If you're a food writer, especially one with a Jewish name, and you want to write about Israel, be sure to provide a thorough disclaimer...

Just now, I overheard a woman telling someone how her husband had lost a great deal of weight. Pressed on which diet he'd used, she expl...

A while back, I suggested that our new societal respect for justified dietary restrictions has lessened our tolerance for unjustified  ones...

Third trip to Philadelphia since the move, first with the "new" car. The best visit thus far. We started out at the Headhouse Farm...

When I read about the German court that ruled against circumcision for religious reasons (i.e. as practiced by Muslims and Jews), I confess...

To the critics of Anne-Marie Slaughter's very-long-but-who-am-I-to-talk * manifesto : she's not claiming to tell the story of strugg...

Only buy what you really want, even if it's more expensive, and spend less. Only eat what you really enjoy, and lose weight. These sugge...

For Kei . Dogs and their strange couch-napping positions. How can this be comfortable?

Flavia has a post up about " professional privilege ," and because I coined the acronym YPIS, another blogger, Withywindle , lured...

WWPD's legislative branch proposes the following: a law that would restrict what parents can write online or publish about their own chi...

The WWPD take on Anne-Marie Slaughter's already-picked-apart Atlantic cover story , "Why Women Still Can't Have It All." ...

The reverse of this problem used to plague me, and still does to some extent, although the years have killed off some of the brain cells in...

Like any sensible humanities grad student, I keep track of Plans B through Z. In doing so, I came across what could well be the worst job im...

A car dealer, into his cellphone, unselfconscious and in earshot of potential customers, in reference to another (potential) customer: ...

-The question of "fast fashion" is in the news again, thanks to a new and much - publicized book by Elizabeth Cline. To some of ...

The " JAP " is back. On the show "Girls," one of the characters evidently fits the bill . Emily Shire situates the David...

Long post, main point in bold: This is going to be my third - and last - attempt at a post about the question of the wives of gay men who,...

One reads a great deal about how these days, "we" (as in, the author and those like the author, in the author's estimation) ca...