I was going through old photos on my computer and found a few pics of STELLA BATTS & THE THREE WEIRD DAYS. As far as I know, it’s the very first (perhaps only) STELLA BATTS fan fiction. My friend Logan’s then five-year-old son was one of the first people to read the STELLA #1, back in manuscript form. I was feeling pretty insecure about the book at ( Read more... )

For at least a year, my best friend Arielle has been telling me she plans to send an email out to everyone she knows, asking for their (inexpensive) beauty secrets - like is there a cheap eye cream that you swear by, or some product that if you put in your hair makes your locks super shiny?  Then, Arielle says, she’ll compile everyone’s secrets ( Read more... )

1. Yesterday I saw my friend Logan and her fingernails were painted in a super fun way, like these blocks of different colors.  Very mod.  I wish I’d thought to take a picture of them so I could post it here.  When I complimented them, she told me she’d actually just applied "Sally Hanson’s Salon Effects Strips,” and she brought me to Duane Reade ( Read more... )

They seem pretty obvious, and I think we pay lip service to those reasons but don’t necessarily think they apply to us.  In the POZ supplement, there’s also an article about sexual health in primetime TV, with a quote from a network exec who was promoting the show Melrose Place last year and said:  “We feel there is a current sexual revolution ( Read more... )

A couple months back I blogged about my friend Logan.  If you happen to know her too, you know how cool it is to be her friend.  In fact, I’ve noticed that a couple of my friends who I introduced to Logan have been writing to her on Twitter more often than they write to me.  But it's okay; I’m down with being cool by association.

In July, Logan ( Read more... )

1. I’m working on a book with a friend - something I’ve never done before.  (Actually, that’s not true; in fourth grade I wrote a book for extra credit with my friend Karin.  We had to read it out loud in front of the whole class, and I had a terrible giggle fit.  Then I worried we wouldn’t get the extra credit because the ( Read more... )

One of my favorite childhood movies is Pete’s Dragon, about an orphan boy who is running away from his awful adoptive parents, along with his best friend Elliott, who happens to be a dragon.  I’ve been thinking about it recently - it started when I was over at Logan ’s, and her son Maverick was talking about his favorite movies.  I asked him if he’d ( Read more... )

Tonight isn’t the first time my friend Logan inspired a blog post.  A few weeks after I met her, I happened upon this article that she wrote for the Huffington Post (how cool is it that she blogs on the Huffington Post?), which talks about the use of a certain derogatory word - a word that makes me cringe as if someone just scraped their ( Read more... )