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Growing up, when my cousins visited Michigan, my mom and aunt would walk around public gardens, with us kids in tow. We would spend forever traipsing down paths, needing to pee, and begging my mom to take photos of us

I’m getting reports that it’s the middle of August. I’d like to spend my remaining free time this month in one of two ways: swimming or sitting outside with a special drink and rotating cast of people I like.

This weekend, Toby, Anton, and I went to our friend Erika’s baby shower…

As soon as we walked into the restaurant, we realized the baby shower would be as chic and down-to-earth as Erika is. First off,

What are you up to this weekend? The boys and I are going to see Mamma Mia on Broadway! It’s one of our favorite movie soundtracks for road trips, and we know most of the words to most of the

I always call my best friend after a date…

Once, following a dinner date, the guy texted that even though we had a lot in common, he wasn’t interested in seeing me again.

“Why do you think he said that?”

When Freddie and I went upstate last month, we invited the wonderful Jenny Rosenstrach and her husband Andy over for dinner…

Freddie made breaded shrimp and vegetable linguine, and Jenny brought the salad, and it was such a joy to

This summer, I wrote a Big Salad issue about botox, but the reader comment that jumped out at me was actually about…

…teenagers.

“Here’s piece of advice for teens that has really stayed with me,” wrote a reader named

On a long flight recently, I read Jessica Stanley’s Consider Yourself Kissed in one sitting. Without giving too much away, the book opens in 2022 with a woman leaving a man, then goes back to 2013 and slowly works forward.

This week, I’ve been tearing through an advanced copy of Awake, an upcoming memoir by Jen Hatmaker (September 23rd) about waking up one night and hearing her husband on the phone, whispering sweet nothings to someone else. That’s page