It’s funny how preferences work. Sometimes the things that bother us about other people are the exact things that make other people adore them. The things we cannot stand about ourselves are things other people like. I have a friend with this wonderful, loud laugh that comes from her very soul. She doesn’t like it; [...]

Do you know what I wish for? I mean, besides a fabulously restored, fully staffed estate in Paris and another in Tuscany. Or for my whole wardrobe to be made by John Galliano and his Dior couture team, plus the lifestyle that would keep me from looking like a very well funded crazy person. (I’m [...]

“Jumbo, go away. Jumbo, go away.” Those were the lyrics to a song written about me by two boys in my fifth grade class. Three simple words, sung in repetition, whenever I was within earshot. Just three words that on their own were completely innocent, but combined would cause my face to burn from embarrassment [...]

As a woman, I am susceptible to the pressures of the airbrushed, tanned and perpetually “perfect” women in the media. I have been in front of the mirror hating every last inch of what I see. Picking apart my stomach, thighs and upper arms, I have slowly tortured myself. But through some therapy, a good [...]

And so she was perfect.  Her curly hair, perfumed with some expensive shampoo, bounced above her shoulder in delicate tendrils.  Her clothes were always pressed, fitted, new and always, always the coolest.  Boys flocked to her big brown eyes and dark Mediterranean skin.   Her face glowed with effortless, blemish free beauty.   I barely had the [...]