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Happy Holidays, Happy New Year, and a very Happy-The-Mayans-Were-Wrong to you all. I took a nice, long break over the past three weeks to visit with family and friends on the East Coast, but now I’m back in L.A. action with my new year’s resolutions in tow. I, like many over-achieving over-planners with a mild to medium case of OCD LOVE New Year’s resolutions. When …
(The above is a photo of my ridiculously happy face while holding Zadie who will not be fully featured on the blog because she is not old enough for Internet fame.) I spent all day yesterday with Baby Zadie and her mom, Carly. As you may recall, Baby Zadie is the most perfect baby that there ever has been, a fact I can now confirm …
Aside from world peace, a healthy 2013, and a puppy for R (that I magically don’t have to walk!), here is what I would like to receive in commemoration for a day that is in no way my birthday. (Apologies in advance to the people who have already purchased my 2012 Christmas gifts. I forgot this blog post was a “tradition” until I couldn’t think …
I’m going to keep this one brief because I really do believe anything published on Gawker.com and anything published by Lena Dunham should be left up to the reader’s own interpretation. That said, this story surfaced recently, and it contains some interesting details. The basic overview is this: Lena Dunham sold a book proposal to Random House for 3.7 million dollars (that’s a lot in …
On Tuesday I sat on the couch and watched TV from 4:30pm until 8:30pm. It was mostly episodes of House Hunters and Property Virgins because I decided that counts as research for if/when I can ever afford to buy a house, but at the end I got sucked into a Vh1 re-run of Michael Jackson’s THIS IS IT, and that’s not technically applicable to my …
My friend Rachel Hollis wrote a very brave piece for HuffPost Women yesterday about her experience with sex in her 20s. It’s called, I Only Had One Kind Of Sex In My 20s, And It Was Amazing. Rachel wrote this very brave piece in response to another HuffPost Women piece called 15 Types Of Sex You Have In Your 20s. Here is an excerpt from …
Last night’s episode of NEW GIRL was called “Eggs” (baby, not breakfast-maker variety), and it raised an important/scary issue that many women approaching their 30s experience. Can you tell me how many viable eggs I have left? Or, in the words we actually mean, can you tell me exactly how soon I need to start thinking about having a baby? SPOILER ALERT: Jess and CeCe …
Since the day I started my first full-time job, I have been online all day every day during the work week. That’s five days a week, approximately nine hours a day, approximately 250 days per year for a total of eight years, or in other numbers 2,250 hours spent online (don’t check my math, just know it’s likely wrong). Yes, there were times when work …
Hello from my first Los Angeles Thanksgiving. The turkey is the smoker (that one up there. It’s R’s masterpiece), the apple fritter is in my belly (my fave way to start a holiday day), and I’m nestled in to watch the mini bits of Broadway during the parade (slash wait for the Rockettes. I used to want to be a Rockette. I sort of still …
Just one week after leaving my paying job to be a full-time writer, I attended a beautiful wedding. At that beautiful wedding I met many lovely people. Most of those people asked me what it is that I do. Here’s how that typically went: Person: So what is it that you do? Me: I’m a writer. Person: Oh very cool. What do you write? Me: …