Village Voices - We don't write papers, we build scrapbooks

Friends might give you a good zinger every once in a while, and children can dish up some god ones, (although we’ll never openly admit it) but when it comes to drilling a dagger straight into your heart and completely deflating your ego – there is only one person in the world who excels at such an art … your spouse.

Now, I have never been confused with someone who understands fashion. Hell, most of you have seen me out in public, and I am about as far away from being fashionably sensible as I am from running a marathon.

When Emily was in school, she would routinely send me back upst...