Confessions of a Facebook Stalker

October 11, 2010
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When it comes to checking up on an ex online, it’s just so darn easy to let our fingers do the stalking. I’d read a lot about how Facebook-stalking can become a dangerous and demoralizing activity, but I had a hunch that it might also help some of us get over past relationships. Well, according to the experts I talked to, it can go either way. My story’s at ELLE.com.

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Katie Holmes as Jackie O. on the cover of last week’s New York Magazine

August 23, 2010
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Brilliant idea: Katie Holmes reenacting paparazzo Ron Galella‘s iconic shot of Jackie O. crossing the street. Katie looks (dare I say it?) even more gorgeous than the original, and it’s a great way to usher in Fall Fashion.

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My top pick for summer reading

July 25, 2010
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Some friends have been asking me for suggestions of good beach reads, and I’ve been telling them how much I looooved Allegra Goodman’s new book, The Cookbook Collector (I reviewed it in the July issue of ELLE). It perfectly sums up the overly optimistic boom-and-bust years of the late 90′s, early 00′s, when everyone was [...]

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Female pro golfers drive home the point about the difficulty of balancing work and motherhood.

July 13, 2010
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I don’t usually read the Sports section, but this excellent article in the New York Times talks about how difficult it is for women to balance work and family…especially when those women work as professional golfers! Writer Karen Crouse focuses on Cristie Kerr, who, at 32, has accomplished her lifelong goal of becoming the No. [...]

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The most important Q&A I’ve ever done.

June 29, 2010
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I interviewed Sharon Lerner, author of The War on Moms: On Life in a Family-Unfriendly Nation, about the difficulties of raising a child in the US, and why unmarried and childless women should care.

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The Cookbook ­Collector by Allegra Goodman

June 29, 2010
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Allegra Goodman has been compared to George Eliot and Jane Austen. Her new novel, The Cookbook Collector (Dial), is enormously satisfying and well worth the investment.

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My fullness article is on CNN today

June 18, 2010

Well, this is a nice surprise: CNN links to my article for ELLE about fullness. And from the multitude of comments, it sounds like people are actually reading it! Thanks for the heads-up, Alissa.

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Writing makes me hungry. Writing about diets made me hungrier.

June 9, 2010
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Exploring satiety for ELLE’s Body Issue (June 2010) helped change my perspective on why and how we eat.

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Hooray for May: two eco-minded stories in ELLE and BUST

May 11, 2010
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In BUST, I interviewed the Guide Girls, a pair of offbeat environmentalists. In ELLE , I talked to five young environmentalists who, only a quarter of a century old, are already gold stars.

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Body Issues

March 11, 2010
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Marina Abramovic’s New MoMA Retrospective The performance artist has made a career out of enduring the kind of physical and mental torment that would make any person’s toes curl. ELLE, March 2010

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