Every year around this time, there’s a musical inevitability. Like gravity. Like glitter in your coat pockets until March. Mariah Carey arrives. “All I Want for Christmas Is You” is basically the holiday’s emotional North Star. Thirty years old, somehow ageless, both nostalgic and aggressively modern. The moment […]
I watched Die Hard again this week. Yes, again. And yes, it is a Christmas movie. I will not be taking questions at this time. Once you’ve lived in Los Angeles, watching Die Hard becomes a scavenger hunt. You stop following the plot and start clocking landmarks. Oh, […]
When I was a little kid growing up in the Bronx, Christmas gifts didn’t always come with batteries or flashing lights. Some came with pages. Thick ones. One year, I received a giant coloring book so big it felt like it needed its own ZIP code filled with […]
Today is a very specific kind of day. It is not Christmas Eve.It is slightly past Hanukkah.It is the eve to the eve and we’re on the narrow bridge of Chrismukkah that we walk every year in our house with mild delight and moderate chaos. It’s the in-between […]
Life has officially gotten ridiculous. I say this as someone who generally rolls with the punches, believes reality is fluid, and accepts that nothing ever goes exactly as planned. But even I had to pause this week and reread a headline that felt less like news and more […]
There are roughly two weeks left in the year, and somehow it feels like both a sprint and a marathon.Or maybe it’s neither. Maybe it’s one of those airport moving walkways where you’re technically in motion but also weirdly standing still, staring at the floor, wondering how you […]
What skills or lessons have you learned recently? There are certain phrases that take up permanent residence in the brain. They don’t pay rent. They don’t announce themselves. They just move in and rearrange the furniture. Case in point: “EXTERMINATE!” Yes. That one. The Dalek battle cry from […]
Do you have a favorite place you have visited? Where is it? People love to ask about travel. Where have you been? What’s your favorite city? What country changed you? This is usually followed by a mental highlight reel of airports, shoes kicked off, and that one time […]
What could you do less of? It’s the holidays, and let me be clear. I love the holidays. Gift-giving is my love language, my cardio, my seasonal sport. I’ll binge Hallmark movies like they’re intellectual cinema, even though I’m not exactly a “hug it out” kind of gal. […]
Some days I wake up, skim a few “news” articles (and I’m using the term as loosely) and I’m greeted with a new trend. Apparently, women are ditching their pants. Lauren Sánchez. Sabrina Carpenter. Miley Cyrus. Wait. She ever wore pants? A whole parade of famous folks are […]
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