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Guy Friend: The Other Kind of Boyfriend

February 14, 2011
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This one’s for the (other) men in my life! I wrote a fun feature for the March 2011 issue of Women’s Health magazine about the joys of having guys as friends.

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Clock Watcher: my article in February ELLE

January 18, 2011
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Is there a biological explanation behind sudden-onset baby lust? How do we know when it’s time to get pregnant? We’ve heard so much about the biological clock, but not much about the alarm mechanism that’s supposed to let us know this thing is working. Concerned about my ambivalent feelings about babies and motherhood, I decided to further explore baby lust. I wrote about my findings in an article for ELLE called “Clock Watcher” (February 2011).

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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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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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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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Cradle Robber?

September 20, 2008
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Women aren’t supposed to think about the childbearing decision as an economic one. But how does a young couple factor the cost of a kid into an already paycheck-to-paycheck existence? One would-be mother stares down the crib sheet. ELLE, October 2008

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