Beach Volleyball phenom Kerri Walsh Jennings was one of eight athletes to grace the cover of ESPN The Magazine’s annual Body Issue this week — having been photographed both while pregnant, and months later with her newborn daughter Scout. I am a huge fan of the Body Issue every year, because naked athletes are a sight worth seeing. Not just… Read more →
Category: The Not-So-Trivial
Getting Old Is Super Weird Sometimes
My sister keeps this picture of the two of us (I’m the tiny one) with our Dad just about 32 years ago exactly. In this photo, my Dad is essentially the exact same age I am today, he’d just turned 32 and was living two miles from the house Scott, Dee, and I currently call home. He had a mustache… Read more →
I Was Born In A Big Town, I Grew Up In A Big Town
Our roots are here. Our families are here. Our friends are here. Our lives are here. I love it here. Would I cease to exist in a place where no one saw me?
I don’t know. But I know it’s worth thinking about. Questioning the status quo is never a bad decision. Read more →
Royal Bump Watch 1982: When The World Awaited Prince William {Hoarding Pays}
Images from a 1982 LIFE Magazine story chronicling the pregnancy of Princess Diana Read more →
A Damn Miracle: Honey Cured My Allergies
My Father-In-Law was the first one to mention it to me. I had coughed my way to a cracked rib while in Laguna Nigel for the weekend, and he was watching me alternately hack and wince with a sympathetic eye. “You know, raw local honey has been really helping me with my allergies. As local as you can get it.… Read more →
Stigma, Weed, and Taxes (Hold On To Your Hats)
Recently, LA city voters passed a proposition that will shut down roughly one thousand law-abiding, tax-paying businesses in its greater metro area. Business which contributed roughly 2.5 Million dollars to the local economy in taxes ALONE over the past year, not to mention the contributions made via payroll, mortgage/rents, suppliers, and the like. As you may know, Los Angeles is grossly… Read more →
Pesticides in Infant Formula? Seriously Similac?
I’ve made no secret of the fact that GMOs give me the heebie jeebies. It’s not that I think they’re going to make me grow a third arm or anything extreme (slash useful) like that, it’s just that they haven’t been around long enough for us to know WHAT they will or won’t do and I can’t wrap my head around acting… Read more →
Getting Comfortable With Discomfort
Every time a dark and scary part comes on in a movie, Delilah furrows her little brow: “I don’t like this movie any more. I want to watch something else. Turn it off.” And every time I feel anxious or stressed out about something, I want to jump up and find a pill for that. Related? Gosh I hope not.… Read more →
The Merida Situation
Look, you guys know I care a WHOLE DAMN LOT about body image. A whole damn lot. But this crazy hullabaloo over Merida getting a makeover? I’m not on board. To summarize, if your twitter feed hasn’t been as aggravated by this as mine: This past week Merida of BRAVE fame had her official Coronation as an official Disney Princess,… Read more →
“That’s Why Her Hair Is So Big, It’s Full Of Secrets”
{photo by Jill Krause} My hair has always been a weirdly important part of who I am. My eternal mood ring, it is unmatched in its ability to reflect my internal sense of self, with or without my permission. Still, almost counter-intuitively, I’ve always regarded it as “just hair” — and my willingness to try new things with it reflects… Read more →