Who do you trust? I trust my good old friends, the ones I have had since I was 14 and we all rode the bus to school together in our maroon uniforms with the knee socks and the boat shoes whose laces we fashioned into bizarre little curlicues on the outside of the hole so that … [Read more...]
My Big Fat Farsi Funeral – Part 2
A few years ago I wrote about my dear friend Jinous, the first woman who was ever allowed to wax my bikini line and then feed me figs, and how she died of lung cancer in 2008. I called that post My Big Fat Farsi Funeral - Part 1. But I never got around to writing any more … [Read more...]
BlogHer 2010 Slideshow
For titles and captions, visit the BlogHer10 set on Flickr. I traveled to BlogHer as an ambassador for the Huggies Every Little Bottom program, and as a promoter of Uptake.com's Travel Gems program. Here's what I attended: 1. Social Luxe Lounge 2. Bumblebee Tuna demo with … [Read more...]
My Big Fat Farsi Funeral – Part 1
In December of 2008 my beloved friend Jinous succumbed to lung cancer. She was the healthiest person I ever knew. She ate healthy foods, she took healthy vitamins, she practiced yoga, she meditated, she wore magnets in her shoes, and she was religious in that mysterious and … [Read more...]