Since I have three sisters and a brother, we get tons of magazines delivered to our house each month. I picked up the latest issue of Seventeen during lunch today and was surprised and very happy at how much the magazine has grown up.
Ashlee Simpson was on the cover, which was a little disheartening, […]

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I’ve always hated the phrase “today is the first day of the rest of your life.” It always bothered me to hear people say that. What about all the time before that? Has every day before the first day of the rest of your life been a waste? Doesn’t everything you’ve done in the past […]

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I was at a friend’s graduation party recently. She has roughly two months off before beginning graduate school studying business. I truly admire this woman not only for her insatiable desire to keep striving to better herself, but also for her ability to realize that even though she does possess this insatiable desire, […]

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So I came across this picture in a link in my friends’ profile.
It just got me thinking about how I totally understand what this boy is thinking. Here I am, nestled in the comforts of home, waiting for the rest of my life to start. It’s this waiting period that’s really gotten me […]

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I just read Kate’s post on all-girls schools, and, now I wonder, could that have been good for me? I am probably just second-guessing myself about my choice of school, (a huge, really academic, with a really great arts program–bigger than most LA private schools,) but, still I wonder…
For a really long time, actually up […]

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I just found out about this new book that was released yesterday called “Learning Like a Girl: Educating Our Daughters in Schools of their Own,” by Diana Meehan. It’s about the perks of all-girls schools and how they have been statistically proven to cultivate leaders (plus, they tend to churn out more math and […]

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First there was Myspace. A “place for friends” quickly elevated to notoriety with reports of fourteen-year-old girls being raped and killed by men they met on the site, and our nation became immediately concerned with the welfare of our youth. So the site increased security, offering private settings so that the photos of your […]

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I am several weeks into the research for my book, Supergirls Speak Out: the Secret Dilemma of Overachieving Girls (January 2009, Touchstone/Fireside), and I am LOVING it. It’s not only a fun “job,” but also really personally gratifying.
There is something really cathartic for me about writing. Even if I’m doing really formal reporting, […]

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Ah! So excited! One of my favorite books, The Overachievers: the Secret Lives of Driven Kids, by Alexandra Robbins, might be made into a movie. It was just announced a few days ago that Universal Pictures has optioned the book.
The Overachievers is seriously one of the best books I’ve read, and probably […]

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I get a little sad everytime I watch the movie “The Parent Trap,” because it’s before things started going wrong for Lindsay Lohan, and clearly the start of where things started going wrong for Lindsay Lohan. Lindsay Lohan’s life seems like a recipe for disaster: alcoholic dad + stagemom mother + young fame and […]

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