Some Serious Footwear
By Monica Yant Kinney ’93
Even though the Dansko clog confounds the critics, this quirky fashion rebel helps women go through life feet first.
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Before and After
By Arienne Thompson '04
When it comes to make-overs, it may help to change clothes and alter appearances. But still, it’s what’s inside that counts.
Snipped
By Jamie Reidy ’92
The author, his reputation hanging by a thread, is saved from a potential Red Carpet embarrassment.
Far afield: Retiring types
By Jason Kelly '95
Wrigley Field’s organist played “My Way” while Chicago Cubs pitcher Kerry Wood walked off the mound for the last time. Wood probably came as close as any professional athlete could to retiring on his own terms, which says a lot about the reluctant endings of most careers.
The Playroom: In a pickle
By Maraya Goyer Steadman '89, '90MBA
The other day, as my husband was clipping my daughter into her car seat, he picked up a pickle slice from the floor of my minivan. I was so busted.
Molarity Redux: Home for summer
By Michael Molinelli '82
Welcome to Molarity Redux, the 31st strip in the updated, continuing adventures of Jim Mole and friends. Sometimes communication between the generations needs a translator.
Graduates, you can go home again
By Katie Peralta ’10
I wallowed and job-searched for about two months before doing some real self-evaluating and coming to a refreshing conclusion. Having supportive parents and a place to go back to, as it turns out, is not the worst thing in the world.
Believing: A useful reminder from Dorothy Day
By Michael Garvey '74
“Of all hostilities,” Dorothy Day once wrote, “one of the saddest is the war between clergy and laity.” She penned those words in the summer of 1964 as some controversy, long since forgotten, roiled the Catholic Church in America.
Making It on Her Own . . . and You Can, Too
By Grace Myers '08
Meg McElwee ’03 knows that the best things in life are often the most simple, like buzzing two pieces of fabric through a sewing machine, sketching out plans for a new dress or running her fingers over the fabric that will soon become a fort for her boys.
By Natural Design
By Jessica Trobaugh Temple ’92
A California surfer-artist goes entrepreneurial to market his own line of freestyle clothing
Teacher Evaluation
By Daniel Myers
The academy gets few awards for sartorial distinction.
The Playroom: A mother’s day
By Maraya Goyer Steadman '89, '90MBA
In the wee hours of this morning, I woke up with the dog snoring in my ear, his leg over my shoulder. Owning the dog hasn’t turned out exactly the way I planned, but then neither have a lot of things in life, such as parenting my kids. I’m not sure what I thought parenting was going to be like.
An Embarrassment of Clothes
By Paige Wiser ’92
Mother decries silly wardrobe choices for children, asks: ‘What are we thinking?’
Something to show for it
By John Nagy ’00M.A.
It’s easy to lose sight of the fact — especially at universities where theory is a favorite pastime and ideas often remain in the abstract — that design is everywhere.
Rockin’ The Pony
By Michael Rodio ’12
Like everything in Asbury Park, the Pony has seen better days. No longer do the leather-jacketed bards of the boardwalk stomp its stage. But once upon a time the likes of Bruce Springsteen and Southside Johnny launched their careers here, and one clear Sunday afternoon five years ago a group of unshaven suburban kids made their debut at this lead-painted cradle of rock. We clearly had no idea what the hell we were doing.
Molarity Classic 130-134
By Carol Schaal
Strips 130-134 of the popular comic Molarity, which previewed in The Observer in 1977, take on printer problems, porn and gambling. Just another week in the Molarity universe.