Astute readers of FishbowlNY may remember that we were planning to add guest blogger Andrew Krucoff to the pseudo-masthead a couple of weeks ago, but Krucoff, whom we referred to as the "Anthony Haden-Guest of blogging" went above and beyond the call of duty in living up to his moniker and skipped town before the job even started, lending unexpected credibility to our foreign correspondent's theory that he does not actually exist. (We'd like to say we were kidding, but we couldn't make that one up even if we tried.) So now we're trying again, and our new guest blogger has promised to stick around long enough to, well, show up for the first day of work--which officially constitutes an improvement upon our established historical precedent. So without further ado...

RACHEL SKLAR is a freelance writer based in New York. She has contributed to The New York Times, The New York Post, The Village Voice, Glamour, The Financial Times and numerous publications in her northern homeland of Canada. She writes the "Channeling" TV column for The Chicago Tribune's RedEye and is the author of A Stroke of Luck: Life, Crisis and Rebirth of a Stroke Survivor (with Howard Rocket, 1998). Prior to freelancing full-time she was a corporate lawyer in New York and Stockholm, where she never learned to like herring.