“Hello, Baby-Sitters Club?” Claudia Kishi picked up the telephone on the first ring, twirling the neon cord around her nail art-adorned finger.

From February’s paid-subscriber email: In which I attribute a selection of my own character flaws and unlikeable actions to celebrities.

Observed and overheard: three unrelated arguments in favor of showing up early (and then just letting things unfold).

Ossification and yassification are not mutually exclusive. See also: time-sensitive enjoyments and postcards from the promised land.

From January’s paid-subscriber email: All of our misplaced sunglasses are thriving in an alternate dimension (and they don’t want to talk to us).

The veil is thin between truth and fantasy, and aimed squarely at Women in Their 40s Who Have Finally Had Enough.