You Can't Put Lipstick on a Pig...Or Can You?

March 30, 2017 by kendall griffin in Culture

It was around this time last year that I came down with a fairly severe case of what is known in Germany as Frühjahresmudigkeit. While I would like to equate the lapse in time since my last instalment at Harlem Hausfrau to this dreaded ailment, I must be honest to both myself and the wonderfully patient readers of this blog that it has in fact been a case of “meinen innerern Schweinehund(“my internal pig(schwein) dog(hund)”) simply rearing its ugly head.

Honesty is the Best Policy?

July 12, 2016 by kendall griffin in Culture, MILO

“Oh look, you have gained weight,” MILO exclaimed.

“Excuuuuseeee me?” I gasped in horror, as my eyes narrowed on my mother-in-law.

Now one would think that based on the extreme altering of my facial features that MILO would have recognized this was not a ‘Harlem Hausfrau-friendly’ topic of conversation and it was time to change the subject at hand – fast. MILO appeared not to read me on this – or did she?