This could only happen in New York. — Cutthroat as you may think New Yorker’s are, there’s one arena where their ambitions are at their most exaggerated. Dog adoption. When I landed there in 2007, fresh on the heels of divorce, I had no idea competitive dog rescue was a thing. And god help me if I ever…

And this is how they’re selling it As someone who had two screws the size of my HAND drilled into my knee to “heal” a broken bone—and then spent two years trying to get it out and only prevailed thanks to a separate procedure—I am all about healthcare research that takes into account the needs of actual…

How insulated must someone be to believe babies are being saved? — The Supreme Court is finally poised to overturn Roe v. Wade, the law that gave women the right to healthcare without undue governmental restriction. One of the Court’s the most widely-contested decisions, I’ve never understood the arguments. Just how is it that Republicans can love this particular governance—enforcing motherhood—and have…

And my friend had no idea. Dry January Addiction Chronicles, Part 1. My friend Mara and I were huddled over menus in an East Village Thai place barely wider than a doorway, deep in conversation about an ex of hers that pre-dated our friendship. …

Takes me back to living in an Islamic regime — Recently, I shared a story I wrote about Gwyneth Paltrow’s pandemic-era reality show, Sex, Love & goop. Only, the video I’d included for its thumbnail illustration—the picture above showing a man standing over a woman who’s laying down, blindfoldead—was blacked out. Its ominous warning tag read, “this video is age-restricted…

The myths about menopause are hardcore, but they don’t have to be hardwired — “The change of life is not seen so much as a change, but an end,” fitness guru Kathy Smith once told me in an interview. “The end of femininity, the end of being a woman.” Yup, I’d silently agreed at the time, blithely unaware that — at 37 — I…

His actions in Florida are a dire warning — On the heels of the Nashville school shooting that ended in the death of six innocent people, Florida’s governor went ahead with his plans to announce his new memoir at a gun store. That’s his blueprint. FREEDOM! Unless you’re gay, trans, a journalist, interested in public education, a person of…

There are rules when it comes to skiing. A lot of them are stupid. — My life changed on a Vancouver ski slope on the last day of 2019 after a snowboarder’s careless pass necessitated driving two palm-sized screws into my knee. I went from being a yoga teacher who rode her bike everywhere to finding child’s pose out of reach. In 2016, on a…

And maybe how we’ll escape it, though the movie is about so much more than the opioid epidemic. But for the record, #$%! the Sacklers — 1981-1986. The Age Preceding Recovery. We were like a Wes Andersen cast before Wes Andersen was a thing. We were clove cigarettes and rubber bracelets and safety pins in our ears. Pointy-toed boots and thrift-store dresses. Arch haircuts and colors we gave each other.