EverBeautiful by Melody Lesser

Women’s

Short Shrift By Harriet Posnak Lesser

Short People

Feeling discriminated against?  Start a protest group. It’s the 2014 thing to do. Find somebody else in the same leaky boat, come up with an identifying adjective, add a hyphen with the word “American” after it — and you’re an instant lobby. So let’s hear it for Shorto-Americans, an undersung, underappreciated, underpublicized and under-about-eveything-else-you-can-think-of group. […] Read more…

Flattery Will Get You Nowhere by Harriet Posnak Lesser

Left handed compliment

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…