On Olympic Bodies
With the recent arrival of the Dobbs verdict, and the further threat to women’s bodily automy, it’s easy to forget that we have been on a road to this for a while. Apart from...
Category: beauty
No Rumpled Female Detectives, Please
Stuck inside with this wave of Omicron, I’ve been watching a lot of old television, from Murder She Wrote to Columbo. All that telly consumption illustrated that we have a long history of rumpled,...
It’s January, Be Nice To Yourself
Every January we are bombarded with fitness plans, weight loss guides and painfully basic advice on how to have the perfect home via decluttering and massive organizing. We are presented with endless and awful...
The Neon Demon: Pretty But Vacant
It’s not often that you get a movie that is both “too much” and “not enough” at the same time. The new film from Nicolas Winding Refn (Drive) “The Neon Demon” is that. As...
Portland Japanese Garden In Fall
Last fall I spent a day photographing the beautiful Portland Japanese Garden. Here are some of the fall pictures. The garden is currently closed for a construction project, so you’ll just have to imagine...
The Women Who Have Songs In My Head
At the moment, there are two women who have playing in my head. One is Australian singer-songwriter Courtney Barnett. I’ve been trying to decipher the lyrics to her song “Avant Gardener” for months now....
How To Repair Your Broken New Year’s Resolutions
Photo: Jo Naylor/flickr It’s been three weeks since so many of us crawled slowly out of bed on New Year’s Day, and made lists of things to accomplish in 2013. Powered by ruthless ambition,...
Celebrate the beauty of just being yourself
Like numerous other women across the globe, I spent July preparing for the “Miss Universe” pageant. As the contestants were practicing keeping a straight face while wearing one of those overspangled, Vegas-inspired “national costumes,”...
Meet Mr. Duke
Many men dream of going out with a supermodel. A long-legged, blond-haired, jaw-dropping, traffic-stopping, stare-inducing, beauty who won the genetic lottery. I go out with a 120 lb. supermodel everyday, and frankly sometimes it’s...
