Phoebe Kate

The sayings “40 is the new 20″ and “60 is the new 40.”  Oh, come on.  Who are we     kidding?

Emeril, Rachael Rae, Paula Dean and Sandra Lee. 

PDAs by couples who’ve been out of high school for more years than they care to admit.

Carrying tiny dogs in purses.

“Yummy mummies.”  Sure, you and I could be one, too, if we had an unlimited budget for beautification and wardrobe, nannies and cooks and maids and personal shoppers and a couple of secretaries to give us the time for spa-going, and hairstylists, makeup artists and personal trainers who make house calls.  Lacking such, we’re doing pretty damn well to be clean and neat every day, if you ask me. 

Kitchen islands. 

The belief that the modern woman “can have it all.”  How did we, intelligent females that we are, let ourselves get sold this outrageous bill of goods?  There are only 24 hours in a day and everything on our long to-do list – career, time for our children, husband/significant other, relatives, friends as well as “me-time” – can’t be our #1 priority.  Some things (and people) are inevitably going to get short-changed.   No wonder millions of American women between the ages of 25 and 44 are clinically depressed and the sales of Prozac and Buspar keep rising by leaps and bounds.    

Anything having to do with any Red Carpet event of any sort.

“Less is more.”  No, less is less and more is more.  Always is, always was and always will be.  Amen.

–phoebe kate