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Manliness to Manilow

JFrom Manliness to Manilowoel Schwartzberg's second book, Small Things Considered: Moments From Manliness to Manilow, is now available from Wyatt-McKenzie Publishing. An award-winning humorist, essayist and screenwriter, Schwartzberg has published work in Newsweek, The New York Times Magazine, New Jersey Monthly, the New York Post, the New York Daily News, The Star Ledger, Babble.com and "in the flimsy pages" of regional parenting magazines around the country. In 2009, he published his first book, The 40-Year-Old Version: Humoirs of a Divorced Dad.

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Indiscretion

Okay, it was me. No one usually wants to admit it, and Lord knows I really shouldn't be writing about this here but I promised to testify about things not easily shared. I was in the subway station the other day about an hour after I had consumed a bowl of chili. The beans in the broth were not quite cooked and I wound up tossing about half of them out. Not enough time it seems to allay the damage. Yes, I was having problems with gas. Walking into the subway station I fo ...
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50 things women over 50 hate about fashion

I've had more than my share of fashion faux pas. I'm the one who went to the bathroom before my court appearance and came back and pled the case for my client with my suit skirt tucked up into my panty hose. At my own engagement party, my future mother-in-law's friend wore the same dress as I did. When someone recently admired my shoes and asked me whose they were, I answered, "mine, who else's would they be?" I often can't seem to get out of my gym clothes to shower until late ...
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