There's a scene in Something's Gotta Give when Harry (Jack Nicholson) and Erica (Diane Keaton) run into her Hampton home to escape a rainstorm. The tension between them has been building for the entire first half of the film, and he can't tug the ribbed cashmere turtleneck off ...read more
There's nothing like entering your late twenties in a longterm relationship, surrounded by bridal parties and first dances on Insta-Stories, to make you realize most people still regard marriage as the metric that defines your success as a couple. And since our office gained a ...read more
I don't think it fully occurred to me that I was getting a face tattoo until the technician, Linda, began talking me through ink color options. She explained that she was going to use a very thin pen to draw hair-thin lines with semi-permanent ink along my brow. The process, ...read more
A few weeks ago, I posted to Twitter and Instagram asking for your help to surprise Jonah's grandmother, Shirley, for her hundredth birthday, by arranging for her to throw the opening pitch for the Milwaukee Brewers. In her century (!) of living in Milwaukee, and fifty years of ...read more
By now, we all know I'm nuts when it comes to traveling efficiently—and my refusal to pay bag fees or wait at baggage claim means I never pack more than a carry-on. While cosmetics and skincare used to be my least-favorite thing to pack, they became my favorite as soon as I ...read more
Is it as beautiful where you live as it was in Los Angeles this weekend? This is my favorite time of year. The night blooming jasmine is flowering all over our neighborhood, so all we have to do to make our house smell fantastic is open all the windows (this expensive candle is ...read more
When it comes to travel, my boyfriend Jonah and I approach each day like we're sprinting a marathon. Every minute is packed with food, drinks, and a lot of walking (we averaged ten miles a day this trip), so it's incredibly important to me that the clothes I pack are not only ...read more
Hello from the Copenhagen airport! In a few hours, I'll be boarding to head back to L.A. after a truly memorable trip—I'm so excited to share it with you in a post later this week, but for now I wanted to share a few things I'm loving this week: I'm always on the hunt for ...read more
Dispatch from Paris! On Friday evening, Jonah and I took off for our eight-day trip to Europe. After a hectic week, wrapping up on work projects and posts, it couldn't have started off on a better foot. At the airport, we ran into Jonah's cousin and her boyfriend en route on ...read more
I grew up in a house of decidedly un-minimalist, un-strategic packers. My mom and I would procrastinate packing until the evening before (okay, hours before) a flight, at which point we'd go through our time-honored pre-trip ritual of panic-shoving everything we could fit into ...read more
1. Inside Elizabeth Holmes’ final months at Theranos. 2. Tips for being an amazing hostess, without the square footage. 3. Is choosing to sleep in separate beds the last relationship taboo? 4. For better or worse, here’s why we’ll never be able to forget high school. 5. What ...read more
This Friday, Jonah and I are heading to my two favorite cities in the world: Paris, then Copenhagen. We'll be spending a few days in Paris just the two of us (mostly eating), then meeting my parents and cousin in Copenhagen the following Wednesday! Outside of traveling with my ...read more
Two weeks ago, I walked into a room of a hundred people dancing on yoga mats parallel to a stage. Speakers blasted The Smashing Pumpkin's Bullet With Butterfly Wings while women (and two men) swung their arms and hips, keeping their eyes glued on the three women on stage. I was ...read more
A few weeks ago, I was strapped into a rowing machine at a bootcamp-style workout studio, nearing the end of a ten-minute row. I was only a few minutes in, but my palms were already so sweaty I could barely grip the handle, my lungs struggled to take in a full breath, and my ...read more
I used to hate birthdays—I literally broke down crying during my driving test on my sixteenth birthday because I was getting "old" (it goes without saying I failed the test, and fully freaked out the DMV guy). But I think I've finally figured out how to enjoy them. I don't have ...read more
Fitness has always been a vital part of not only my physical health, but also my mental health. But after a year of 6:30 AM classes, I noticed another trend: I was feeling unexcited by workouts, sluggish at the end of the week, and uncreative. My routine of wakeup, workout, work ...read more
When I think about the purchases I've made that have changed my life most dramatically (we're not talking about food, and survival essentials here of course!), my mind goes to the products that have streamlined my routine. I immediately think of the items that transformed my ...read more
I'm terrible at being sick. I'm way too restless to actually rest, get cabin fever when I'm trapped inside with one, and get frustrated when I'm too fatigued to exercise (let alone stand for more than thirty seconds). When a bad cough and fever kept me home from work three days ...read more
For as long as I can remember, it's taken me upwards of an hour to get ready in the morning. In high school, I woke up at 6 a.m. just to shower, blow-out my hair, straighten or curl it, then painstakingly apply foundation, mascara, eyeliner, and about forty other products. It ...read more
Every once in a while, I feel so overwhelmed by the "rules" I decide to ignore them completely. This weekend, I traded in vegetables for pastries (I survived almost exclusively on cinnamon rolls, cookies, and croissants on both Saturday and Sunday), ignored my frugal tendencies ...read more
Three years ago—before I'd met any of the women in L.A. who would become like sisters—I sat curled-up in a ball on my kitchen floor, crying. Jonah tried to soothe me between my gasps for breath and tears, as I revealed the reason for my breakdown: I had no friends. On some ...read more
After spending my entire Saturday in Claremont and San Gabriel Valley (where we went to this incredible noodle restaurant for lunch), I spent Sunday at my second 'Cave Day.' The idea of Cave Day, as I wrote about here, is to spend time on a special project in 45-minute sprints, ...read more
Even though I spent three days in Park City, Utah this weekend (arriving back in L.A. late last night), I felt like I was gone for a week. It was so rejuvenating to escape to a winter wonderland with friends and get some skiing in. We literally skied from 9 am to 4 pm every day, ...read more
Growing up in Reno, Nevada meant skiing was always an important part of my life. Middle school and high school were filled with daily 4 A.M. wake-ups for ski team, weekends were spent with friends on the local mountain, and afternoon classes got out early so we could catch at ...read more
