Veronica X.

Late one evening, the letter slips quietly beneath your front door: "Please submit a brief biography to the nominating committee if you are interested in serving on the board."  It sits on your desk for days, begging to be acted upon or thrown out.  You write the bio, but will the nominating committee read between the lines?

We get it.  Your Bronx/Brooklyn/Queens/Staten Island pad is PALATIAL and you love it there, you really, really do.... Here is what you say--and what you don't.

An Upper East Side mother is suing her kid's preschool for $19,000 for allegedly failing to prepare said spawn for the ERB test (referred to as ‘the baby SAT’ on CNN), thereby ruining the child's chances of ever getting in to a decent ongoing school, college, yadda, yadda.... Meanwhile, the rest of the country is shaking their heads over the fact that anyone would spend $19,000 on preschool in the first bloody place.  

They left you for schools and space--but you know your formerly city-slicking friends are really drinking the Mt. Kisco (or Roslyn or Alpine or...) Kool-Aid when you hear them say things like....