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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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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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New Yorkers: get your folk on with Garfunkel & Oates

March 2, 2010
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Isn’t this photo fantastic? It was taken for BUST by Verity Smith and styled by Jazzi McGilbert. Although they sing like angels, these ukelele-toting cuties put the f*ck back in folk. Check out my interview with the sweetly sardonic Garfunkel & Oates in the Oct/Nov issue of BUST, and then go see them live. They’re [...]

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Word of the decade: philoprogenitive

August 11, 2009

philoprogenitive \fill-uh-proh-JEN-uh-tiv\ adjective *1 : tending to produce offspring : prolific 2 : of, relating to, or characterized by love of offspring Example Sentence As we move through our thirties, it has become abundantly clear that my female friends, colleagues and family members are more philoprogenitive than I am. antonyms: phoboprogenitive, progeniphobic, freaked-out, indecisive, ambivalent [...]

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We need more movies like Away We Go — but with better endings

July 5, 2009

Critics’ reviews of Away We Go made the film sound as enjoyable as eating a pint of curdled yogurt. Variety called it an “an oddly sour, unappealing road-trip scenario” that will appeal only to true fans (“fans” here obviously meaning “silly hipsters with questionable literary taste”) of the screenwriters, Dave Eggers and Vendela Vida. NPR’s [...]

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Cameron Diaz bravely speaks out against public shunning of ambivalent women

June 10, 2009

Now that she’s 36, I’m sure that the giddily gorgeous Cameron Diaz is constantly fending off questions about husbands and babies. When, with whom and even how women reproduce are no longer taboo subjects — in fact, they’re what Enquirer-minds want to know. And stars, even young, single ones, are always more than happy to [...]

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Why the long faces, ladies?: Researchers stumped by data that shows that women are grumpier now than they were in the 70’s

June 4, 2009

As much as I like to gripe about how much easier it was for my parents to afford stuff (like a mortgage, property, health care, and most importantly, a baby) when they were my age, I’ve never actually wanted to trade places with them. Even if I had a time machine (or a ticket for [...]

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Cylons 4ever!!!

January 18, 2009
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A fellow Battlestar Galactica fan brought this awesome cake to the Season 5 premiere party we attended on Friday night. Perhaps he’s trying to say something here about the direction in which the show is going? “Cylons 4ever???”

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