At first, I assumed "Mommy's Going Out," a column in Cookie magazine, was a joke.
Then, I sorta just hoped it was, because considering the alternatives was giving me a headache.
Then, I realized that Cookie isn't the type of publication to pull an Andy Kaufman-style prank on the reading community and that, no, this Tatiana Boncompagni must be a real person who thinks she has real problems, what with all the black-tie galas and Chanel bags and free Bobbi Brown cosmetics. Boo-hoo, she says, I only go out once a week to fabulous parties and spend the rest of the time with my fabulous family.
Then, I broke out some Google-fu and found out that, indeed, Boncompagni is for real.
Then, I got very, very sad. Not sad that my own life isn't like Boncompagni -- my free bath salts were of the Epsom-and-food-coloring variety -- but sad that such lives exist outside of fiction and that those who live them think their problems can be related to by the rest of us.
