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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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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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Ladies Man: Matt Bomer

March 2, 2010
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My interview with White Collar star Matt Bomer is in the March issue of ELLE. Mr. Bomer is lovely! Considerate, nice, funny — a real pleasure to talk to. And if you think he looks good in this mug shot, you should see the photo in the magazine. Wowza!

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Amy Poehler UNCUT!

March 11, 2009
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There’s a teaser of my interview with the hilarious Amy Poehler in the April issue of ELLE, but the online version at ELLE.com is much longer, funnier and, if I do say so myself, more interesting. Here, the SNL veteran and long-time improvista has more room to talk about women and comedy, and how while [...]

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She’s So Unusual

January 1, 2009
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In her riveting graphic memoir Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi lifted the veil off what it was like to be a smartass Iranian girl in a rapidly changing world. Now as her story is prepared for the big screen, she looks back on her journey from heretic to counterculture heroine.

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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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