That's big

I'm past the age where svelte is an option. But the pandemic has been shrinking my clothes. Waistbands that used to sigh and go along are now resisting more vigorously than ever. Buttons are popping. Belts are collapsing.

The singer and actor Melissa Errico is with me on this. She had this wonderful piece in yesterday's Times about squeezing it all in after a year of nowhere to go.

Errico's story is really more of a tribute to her fabulous costume designer, Eric Winterling. That's what I need at this point, a costume designer. If I hit the lottery, I'm gonna get me one.