One morning, when I was sitting on the bench in our hallway, not even wanting to tie my shoes, my husband said to me,…
“She looks just like a piece of cake,” say the courtiers, when Marie Antoinette’s at the dinner table. True enough. In Sofia Coppola’s 2006…
2023 was for Girl Dinner. I, you, we as girls ate Girl Dinner most nights of the week, if “dinner” can be at midnight…
When Jon proposed in a bookstore last summer, I slid my hand into his and said “yes” as readily as I would any question…
I grew up in a farmhouse in Ireland where my mother baked every day. Tarts and crumbles and homemade bread, using apples from the…
I’ve always been an early riser. When I was a kid, I would wake up before everyone else, blinking into the dark, and creep…
I’ve never officially been diagnosed with an eating disorder, but I am a human American woman with immigrant parents and, when I was growing…
She died while I was skate-dancing to “Fantasy” by Mariah Carey at my friend Sarah’s birthday party at Ron-A-Roll. Mid-party, my stomach started to…
I have tried every diet in the book, even the dangerous ones, even the silly ones. My fascination with dieting started at a fairly…