Blanquera provides a reason why your girlfriend makes suggestions about your clothes.

‘Twas just a few days before Christmas when the Pillow family went bra shopping at American discount store, TJ Maxx.

Like most people who majored in Medieval Studies, Summer Block has spent a lot of time working in retail.

I greatly appreciated DM’s fine remark that you have to be in a relationship to understand that locations can become “haunted” (my word) with decisive emotional events that have taken place there. The writer is talking about the couple’s home. And aren’t there places in your own home, in my case one is the end of a cabinet in the dining room, where you will never forget what was said there? The atmosphere lingers, like a faint smoke or an odd feint of light.

A man accompanies his wife shopping and hears the voice of Billy Corgan singing Christmas carols. Faced with the questions of globalization and sweatshop labor, the man searches out the nearest man chair to ease his mind—that and to wait for his wife to try on her clothes. What he discovers is that the man chair does not exist, and in its place instead, a man wearing dirty running sneakers and a black cap with orange and red flames.

The Nervous Breakdown, the angels did say, was to certain poor shepherds…ah, you get the idea.

When a Brooklyn neighborhood is too convenient, how is a lazy shopper to choose?