My parents stayed with us this weekend.  Malfunctioning air-conditioner aside, we had a fantastic time. As is our routine on Saturday, we all trekked off the synagogue.  While I opted to wear something simple and relatively sweat proof given the temps, my mother wore a form fitting but still season appropriate dress. Why would you [...]

Some more juicy reading that didn’t make its way into our posts this week: A provocative piece on what ties Amy Winehouse and Anders Behring Breivik: a preoccupation with ideals and archetype http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/26/winehouse-breivik-and-deadly-ideals/?emc=eta1 Harrods has the chutzpah to fire someone for not wearing make-up http://www.guardian.co.uk/law/2011/jul/01/harrods-dress-code-sales-assistant We can’t excuse aging for our extra pounds, just bad [...]

Toronto doctor, Xialoan Zhao, has received a lot of press for her new book on traditional Chinese beauty treatments, Inner Beauty: Feeling and Being Your Best. Her basic point is that Western women pay too much attention to correcting the outer body with invasive surgery.  And this worrying about and attention paid to beauty is [...]