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His Worship

Originally published in July 2012 in Blog

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Food trend: face plants

Originally published in July 2012 in Blog

I’ve noticed a food trend. It’s not sexy like figs with warm honey, or technically brilliant and tasteless like foam. It’s definitely not healthy. And it’s more a style of eating than any new culinary concoction. It involves doing a face plant in clouds of takeout wrapping paper. Anyone watching you eat like this has [...]

Life support

Originally published in July 2012 in Blog

coined this saying in my twenties, and believed it through that entire decade of my life. Back then, men my age reacted to me in two ways: sexual heat or professional competitiveness, but usually they offered the package deal. Keeping an eye firmly planted on me (and my rotating outfits), they monitored the pace of [...]

In conversation with Google’s Robert Wong

Originally published in July 2012 in Blog

I recently sat down with Robert Wong, the co-founder and Executive Creative Director of the Google Creative Lab. You may not know about the lab, but its products are unforgettable. Take “Parisian Love,” a 52-second video the lab produced that’s all about “search” and the serendipity of finding true love through the internet. This video [...]

Newspapers of yore had "Society Pages." By and for women, they tackled everything from recipes and hemline lengths to royal weddings and Hollywood gossip. True to my predecessors, I've lunched with the Lauders, interviewed the Kennedys and deconstructed deviled eggs (as as one would expect of a "pearly girl" and a former editor at Elle). But this blog goes beyond trailing A-listers. Here I get to muddle over human nature and ask all the questions we're thinking when we're not in polite company.