She is weaning herself off nicotine rather than using a patch, and her reasoning is simple enough to argue with: a patch still supplies the thing she is trying to stop taking. Tina Rhodie writes an update rather than a triumphant announcement, admits she is neither doing well nor badly, and keeps going.
Her ear is the best thing about this blog. She overhears three schoolgirls in New York, one complaining that something takes too much work and another answering that it is hard at the start and then it is nothing, and she builds a whole post out of that exchange.
She does the same with favouritism, opening with a grandmother at a wedding letting slip which granddaughter she prefers and then trying to take it back a second too late.
The fourth post asks why men lie in relationships and does not pretend to settle it.
Four posts. Read the smoking updates if you are trying to stop, and the teenagers one for the way she listens.