Nov 26, 2020Member-onlyDo you have issues with food around the Holidays? Doesn’t everybody?Well, hello again favorite food holiday. They really are my favorite foods, all of them —they even rank ahead of the bagel smorgasbord at Yom Kippur’s break-the-fast. But alas, in my family (and hence in my head), thoughts about food take precedence and often take up full-time residence. How the…Thanksgiving7 min readThanksgiving7 min read
Sep 11, 2020Member-onlyThree Great Books About Writing That You (Likely) Haven’t Heard AboutFI will never be the writer that recommends books on actual writing — about things like… grammar story dialogue craft Much better writers than me have given us classics in all these areas (Strunk & White/Zissner, McKee, McKee again, King, respectively). What I do like to recommend are books that…6 min read6 min read
Jun 17, 2020Member-onlyWhy White Celebrities Really Need to STFU Right NowIt started with the pandemic. A ragtag group of rich and famous people thought it would be a good idea to address the topic of being in quaratine (after only 6 days, by the way) in song. Led by Wonder Woman herself Gal Gadot, celebrities each sang a line from…Blm5 min readBlm5 min read
Published inWhat Would Murphy Brown Do?·Sep 24, 2018The Best Women’s Tweets about KavanaughThe Best Women’s Tweets about KavanaughPolitics2 min readPolitics2 min read
Published inWhat Would Murphy Brown Do?·Oct 24, 2017As Women, Can We Separate the Art from the Man (And Should We?)Can you separate the art from the man? An age-old question, but for women, a very relevant one. It may be relatively easy to avoid the art of say a Nazi or a pedophile, but can we avoid the art of misogyists? Can we boycott our way to more power…Feminism11 min readFeminism11 min read
Sep 8, 20173 Apps to Help You Break a Habit…Or Create OneTechnology can be incredibly useful, as we all know. But in some areas, there hasn’t been as much progress as there could be. …Productivity4 min readProductivity4 min read
Published inThe Writing Cooperative·Aug 1, 2017If You Need A Gun to Your Head to Write, Here It Is: The Frightening Beauty of FlowstateThe writing program you never knew you needed or wanted. — I’m a procrastinator. Always have been. I’m a very think-y person and my mind usually requires time to figure anything out, even the small things. I could research for months about sunscreen or bone broth or French feminist writers of the 20th century. The point is that while I still…Productivity3 min readProductivity3 min read
Published inWhat Would Murphy Brown Do?·Jul 21, 2017Did he just say that? How do you talk to misogynists so they’ll listen?I have never been so happy with all the wonderful angry women around me. I love a woman who is so over this patriarchy bullshit. Because I’ve been there for a long long time. Way back in 2015, when I was writing a book called Righteous Anger: Why American Women…Women7 min readWomen7 min read
Published inThe Writing Cooperative·Jul 5, 2017The 3 Best “Unknown” Books on Writing (And why it’s good to read writing books.)I’ve been writing most of my life, I’ve been published and I’ve had my share of disappointments. But regardless of where I’ve been in my career, I have always read books on writing. …Writing8 min readWriting8 min read
Published inWhat Would Murphy Brown Do?·Apr 25, 20175 of the Best Women’s TV Speeches Ever (with video, of course)To begin a series about how pop culture and feminism are intertwined in all kinds of incestuous ways, I must revisit the best of the genre. As I wrote in the introduction to my book, What Would Murphy Brown Do? …Hillary Clinton4 min readHillary Clinton4 min read
