Posts Tagged ‘New York Gal’

Stairway to Better Health

Written by admin on June 30, 2010. Posted in On Topic OTDT, Opinion and Column

How I stopped riding the elevator and learned to love the stairs By Lorraine Duffy Merkl One of the two elevators in my building is out of commission and it’s the best thing that ever happened to me. The lifts are getting a lift, if you will. I’m glad our board approved the improvement, but
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Down Time in the City That Never Sleeps

Written by admin on May 20, 2010. Posted in Uncategorized

By Lorraine Duffy Merkl “I have a leisurologist,” said the young woman into her cell, while breezing by me on Madison and 60th Street at lunch hour. She was in her late twenties, with bouncy brown hair and simple, yet trendy, clothes. Her demeanor was so upbeat, all I could think was Whatever a leisurologist
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Like Mother, Like Granddaughter

Written by admin on May 5, 2010. Posted in On Topic OTDT, Opinion and Column

How did an introvert like me give birth to Miss Congeniality? By Lorraine Duffy Merkl Unlike me, my daughter, Meghan, can work a room like a politician, remembering everyone’s name and how she first made their acquaintance. She is 12 years old
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A Lesson from Betty

Written by admin on April 21, 2010. Posted in On Topic OTDT, Opinion and Column

Betty Suarez has left New York City for jolly ol’ England. And now, Ugly Betty is no more. For four seasons, we’ve gotten to watch America Ferrera’s character transform from a poncho wearing, outer borough brace face into an urbane and stylish Manhattan magazine editor. I remember long ago and far away, getting off the
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Revenge of the Housewives

Written by admin on April 7, 2010. Posted in On Topic OTDT, Opinion and Column

Well, the Real Housewives are back, representing us for what we can only hope is their last season. Thus far, the rest of America has learned that we New Yorkers: • Like to take our clothes off and can make it sound as though we are doing some great public service. In Bethenny’s case, she
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My Part-Time Boss, Mr. Pitt

Written by admin on March 24, 2010. Posted in On Topic OTDT, Opinion and Column

After 15 years as a stay-at-home mother and freelance writer, I decided it was time to start working on-premises again—part-time. Even though this decision came in the middle of the recession, I figured I’d take my chances and start looking. For one entire year, I only came across three part-time writer jobs. I didn’t get
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Back Up in the Air

Written by admin on March 11, 2010. Posted in On Topic OTDT, Opinion and Column

“Manhattan Man” was one the characters on Sex and the City to whom I have related for many years. He was the guy Miranda dumped 10 minutes into their blind date, after he turned up his nose at her plans to visit her grandfather in Connecticut. “I haven’t left Manhattan in 10 years,” he boasted,
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Bright Lights, Big City

Written by admin on February 26, 2010. Posted in On Topic OTDT, Opinion and Column

“There’s no life above 14th Street,” a former colleague was known to say. She is not the only lower Manhattanite I’ve heard utter those words. Perhaps they think it has a certain cool downtown cachet, but all I ever think is, How limiting
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Match Made in Brooklyn

Written by admin on February 11, 2010. Posted in On Topic OTDT, Opinion and Column

At a party I did not want to go to, in a borough I had never desired to visit, I met my husband. “It’s in Brooklyn,” said my friend, who, like me, lived in the Bronx. My response: “Enjoy.” She then explained that a mutual friend was invited by one of his law school classmates,
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A Lesson from Ashley Dupre

Written by admin on January 28, 2010. Posted in On Topic OTDT, Opinion and Column

Just call me your psychic friend. When the Eliot Spitzer scandal broke, I wrote a column called, “Here’s How It’s Gonna Happen” (March 27, 2008), where I predicted that despite Client 9’s “activities” while he represented us, he would be welcomed back somewhere. That place may be as New York state comptroller. I also saw
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