Isabella Duton’s children are the biggest mistake of her life. But before you dismiss her as a wretch, consider what your reaction would be to a father who wrote the same article. I know that I judge her differently than I would a father. I can’t believe she and I are members of the same [...]
February 28, 2013
Guest Post by Missy Lambert When I was a kid, my hair was straight, blond, thin, soft as a mouse. I wanted curly hair. My mom gave me perms but they never took, or they took to only a few strands. In high school my hair became darker and wavy, but inconsistently wavy: stick-straight [...]
February 7, 2013
Guest Post by Hester Kaplan When I was in my teens, my mother told me, “No man will want to marry you because you have kinky pubic hair.” (She claims she never said this, but could I make it up?) I had a head of curly, dense dark hair, prone to frizz and uncontrollability, so [...]
January 22, 2013
My thick, kinky hair has never been something easy to manage. I’ve tried hundreds of products. As a teen, I’d stare dreamily at girls with straight hair, desperate to feather my hair just once. I’d cry with envy when Marcia Brady brushed her hair 100 times with abandon. Curly girls don’t brush their hair. Ever. [...]
January 7, 2013
During the holidays of Christmas and New Year’s Eve, what, I wondered over and over, were the families of the Newtown shootings, the families missing their children, doing? How were they coping with the aftermath, the holidays, the requirement that time move forward and lives around them resume? As I begin yoga each [...]
December 24, 2012
Guest Post by Stephanie Simpson Lazenby The classic holiday song sings, “It’s the most wonderful time of the year.” But this year, I am finding it very hard to believe that it is. There has been a disturbance in the force – and it has left me reeling. In the short span of a couple [...]
July 31, 2012
Guest Post, by Gail Doktor How do you know when what you want is also what you need? When they’re opposites? Want can compromise you, as much as it might entertain or satisfy you. While need is essential to survival and greater quality of life. Sometimes you mistake one for the other. A craving can become a force so powerful that it [...]
July 12, 2012
I pulled my back out on my date with the A-Hole from Bridesmaids. You know, the Jon Hamm character? A perfect storm of vanity and self-consciousness converged on a bench, when I tried to make my bare legs (100 percent humidity had me in shorts) look their best. I alternated between crossing them (bad for [...]
June 27, 2012
Dear Miri, I got married few months ago. I told my husband about my past before we got engaged; I was having affair which lasted 3yrs. I had gotten physical with that guy, and I told this truth to my husband, as I never wanted to cheat on my husband. At the time I told [...]
June 7, 2012
After not only surviving–but enjoying–a family vacation last weekend, I thought it would be a good idea to make a list of family vacation survival tips since… a) lists are good and b) since most of us will be venturing off into the wild world of 24/7 bonding time with a bunch of screaming maniacs [...]
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