Many of us live in a world of excess. We exploit ourselves for Sea World, our obesity rates are on the rise and our national debt is the worst its been since Truman.
Lately, I’ve been feeling unsettled. It isn’t because I’ve been stressed out, because I just got back from an amazing week on Kiawah [...]

So, this past Fourth of July found me in Wilmington, NC, enjoying a long, action-packed weekend of old friends, new friends, sun, sand, and of course—everyone’s favorite American tradition—booze.
First let me apologize for being remiss with last week’s post, although I see no one else has posted in the interim either. Regardless, I was otherwise [...]

My favorite part of getting to know someone is the beginning.
You know, when you are actually fun.
When you have SO many hilarious stories to tell.
When you’re not really sure if you are crossing a line by saying something- but you say it anyway because you have nothing to lose.
When you honestly don’t know what that [...]

You know how you know that you have been drinking too much?
This morning I spent a good twenty minutes in the shower making sure the day was actually Monday and not Sunday. I had to recall specific events and relate them to a day in order to figure out the date. If it was in [...]

It’s a dreary Wednesday. The weekend and its promise for beautiful weather is a few days away. What’s keeping your spirits up in the meantime? Here are some things that brighten my days.

Photo courtsey of Apartment Therapy
Sunshine slipping through your miniblinds. Chocolate milk. The scent of cinnamon. Cereal and milk. Crossword puzzles. An organized [...]

Lately I’ve felt like an old man.
It’s fucking sad. I mean, I used to be able to party all night, go to work the next day, workout, then do it all again the next day. What the hell is going on here? Now if I party all night, I pay the ultimate price the next day.
When I [...]

Some of you may have noticed his comments on several recent posts, but the newest blogger to grace the pages of UNW is Kurt, a 25-year-old copywriter from New York. When he’s not busy writing ad and marketing copy by day, he will share with us the insights of a single guy living in the [...]

I was walking out of the elevator in my building one recent afternoon when I heard two girls behind me talking about the cake that they’d just swiped from someone’s birthday party in a nearby conference room.
“I can only have a little bit,” one of the girls said to the other. “I need to save [...]

Someone needs to stop me before this little hobby of mine gets out of control.
Have you heard of the beauty pageant winner in New Jersey, who was writing bad checks to buy antiques? Yeah, that’s almost exactly like me except my checks are good and I am WAY hotter.
Whats up with the beauty queens in Jersey [...]

Today’s guest post has been submitted by Jack, a former blogger who is getting his feet wet once again on the interwebs. Maris will be back in action next week!

They say age is just a number, and many times that’s true. Your age, in a very scientific sense, is the quantitative measure of your [...]

This past Friday I found myself thinking about someone who passed away a few years back. There’s only a handful of people in life who you will meet who will have an impact on your life. Ralph, for me was one of them.
Ralph was my boxing trainer for seven years. I remember first starting out [...]

Last week was a great week.
The higlight? Getting in touch with someone I havent had contact with for about a decade. She’s smart, beautiful and into sports. She’s been through some of the same things I have and even though we’ve never been very close, she’ll always be a part of me.
She’s my sister. Like every [...]

This week I had the pleasure of guest posting for the lovely Angilio while she was partying it up in Vegas. On her blog I talked about what I had wanted to “be when I grew up” as a child. I had planned to write something different for my post here this week, but since [...]

Ok, so this morning I was reading this post* and one of the “secrets” really struck a chord inside of me.
It was #6. No wait, I mean #5. Seriously, I dont have any blog man crushes. It was defininetely #5.
“5. My company is making more personnel cuts and I really hope I’m on the chopping block. [...]

I met my high school boyfriend when I fell off a bus. Of course, I was mortified, when I turned around to whisper a joke to my friend Jane, missed a step, and went flying forward from the big yellow school bus that had transported my class to an annual end-of-the-year field trip at a [...]