On Monday, the web had a collective panic attack when it was announced that private Facebook messages of days gone by were showing up in public Timelines. It turned out to be a mistake. Users new to the Timeline format, unexpectedly seeing the design on their pages, were mistaking public …
I love telling stories - with a pen and paper, a keyboard or a camera. And I was truly honored to have learned yesterday that I was named a BlogHer Voice of The Year for my post my post, Cancer, Red Balloons and Beauty in the Details. In words and …
Vidal Sassoon with permission of Claus Niedermaier
I remember a story once told to me by a cousin of my grandfather’s about her visit to Vidal Sassoon’s London salon and the pixie cut that she left with. When she arrived back at the hotel, her husband said he hoped she’d never wear her hair any other way. …
If my life wasn’t funny it would just be true, and that is unacceptable. – Carrie Fisher, Wishful Drinking I got an email from one of my best friends last year after she saw Carrie Fisher’s one-woman show, Wishful Drinking. I’d yet to see it. She told me I had …
All I ever wanted. All I ever needed. Is here in my arms. Words are very unnecessary. They can only do harm. - Depeche Mode, “Enjoy the Silence” The Depeche Mode dress. Because I need another striped dress. Or striped anything. But I happened to walk by H&M at the …
Invisible threads are the strongest ties - Friedreich Nietzsche I’m a talker. Born to talkers. The types who will strike up conversations with strangers in line at the post office, which made me cringe with embarrassment until the day I realized that I had become them. I have fascinating …
This is why I love the internet: I was writing a post for Beauty Banter about my summer beauty tips yesterday, and I happened to see my friend Morgan tweet about these sunscreen wipes she uses for her daughter. I asked her if they were good for all ages, and …
For fifteen years, I have worked as a writer, and later, a photographer and an editor as well. I love editing, be it book or magazine or for an individual client. Not just the research and working with writers and the robin’s egg blue cover of the latest CMOS, but …
In the last week, I joined in celebrating the 90th birthday of a man who has lived a truly remarkable life. I also learned, via twitter , of Alice Pyne, a fifteen year old girl in England with terminal cancer who created a blog to post her bucket list, which …