If my childhood, teens, and twenties were about wanting people to like me, now I want people to know me. So,
I will employ the gentle, vague expression I’m not crazy about that on you, which should mean to you, Holy shit, take that off, that looks terrible! I owe it to you to give feedback like a cattle prod...
I think that's the lesson of this story: you never know what is going to happen.
Hell is Whole Foods on a Sunday. It’s hordes of moms in lightweight fleeces pushing one another out of the way to get to bins of dry lentils.
Gregor would reference all kinds of books and articles, and instead of paraphrasing them, like any normal lazy person, he'd insist on going online and finding the exact line or quote from the secondar...
Fueling my fight against my dad’s wishes was my enormous dislike of bikes. Bikes were horrible. Bikes always seemed to be scratching against my legs, or the spoke was poking me or something. Pebbles e...
Don’t be closer to twice a friend’s weight than to her actual weight, I told myself.
Don’t be closer to twice a friend’s weight than to her actual weight, I told myself. This little mantra has helped me stave off obesity for more than two decades.
Thrown-Together Disaster Funeral is my new HGTV show. It’s a makeover funeral show where three flamboyant gay guys and a judgmental sassy broad (think Wanda Sykes) crash a tacky funeral and fix it. Wa...
We, as consumers, are not completely satisfied with our scrutiny of women’s appearances in TV and film. We also find it enjoyable to pit women against each other in fashion Hunger Games.
My secret is: even though I wish I could be thin, and that I could have the ease of lifestyle that I associate with being thin, I don’t wish for it with all of my heart. Because my heart is reserved f...
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With no music to listen to, I just biked around in circles talking to myself like a kid on the cover of a Robert Cormier young adult novel,
Why didn’t you talk about whether women are funny or not? I just felt that by commenting on that in any real way, it would be tacit approval of it as a legitimate debate, which it isn’t.
While I chewed on my eleven brioche rolls, I saw the likes of Gen. David Petraeus, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, and that guy from Magic Mike, who also played a hot werewolf and was supposed to have a huge...
We have to help our girls and teach them to be confident.' Well, guess what, young girls. You aren't damsels in distress. You aren't hostages to words of your peers. You aren't the victims that even y...
Unfortunately, I can’t be Tina, because it’s very difficult to lure her into a – type situation where we could switch bodies, even though in the movies they make it look so easy. Believe me, I’ve trie...
There Has Ceased to Be a Difference Between My Awake Clothes and My Asleep Clothes
THOUGH I WENT to a very artsy private high school in Cambridge, Massachusetts, I wasn’t raised by parents with a liberal attitude toward alcohol. There was no whimsical sip of wine at Thanksgiving for...
POP STAR: Oh, that’s so great. I’m really looking for someone young and cool. My last guy had really antiquated ideas. ME: Asha is the best. And very young and cool. Unless of course you don’t want to...