Ah, left-handed compliments. They’re the ones where you think you’re being complimented but when you get home you realize that the flatterer embedded a knife in your back. We’ve all received them; some of us have even given them. Here, Harriet Posnak Lesser, my decorous and ladylike mother, tells us how to decipher left-handed compliments. […] Read more…
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When I was a young newlywed living in an apartment in New York City, I became friends with a neighbor who was about my age. She had a beautiful baby daughter and a husband who I didn’t meet until we’d been friends for some time. She rarely talked about him. I knew his name and […] Read more…
“IN” STYLE by Harriet Posnak Lesser
Attention fall fashion fanatics. Here’s everything you wanted to know but were afraid to ask about what’s “in” for fall 2014. GRAY … Uh oh. So gray’s not your color. Makes you look washed out, sickly, depressed and (shudder) older. Well that’s just too bad. According to the guys and gals who make the rules, […] Read more…