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On Taking Risks (opens the original)
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POP CULTURE SERMONNote: Weight and body image are discussed in this post.I fell in love with Ilona Maher during the 2024 Paris Olympics. Instagram’s algorithm served me a video of her responding to a disparaging comment about her body. She was taking the troll’s comment seriously and debunking his “question” about her BMI. Her response went viral. In it, she shared her height and weight: 5’10” and 200 lbs. She was so relaxed yet poised, eloquent and comfortable. She ended in a way that became ic
On Traveling for Work (opens the original)
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Welcome to a new occasional newsletter style from me: a rant. Shocking, I know. I have strong opinions about deeply trivial things. Sometimes it will be a rave—a celebration of the little things—but today: a complaint.I travel a lot for work and so, of course, I have my little favorites: hotel chains, travel points, membership situations, and so on. I really like this one hotel chain in particular. I don’t need a lot of space and they let you save money by staying in a postage stamp-sized room.
On Writing A Divorce Memoir (opens the original)
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My ex-husband and I started couples therapy shortly after I found out that he was cheating on me. In the first session, the couples therapist said to me, “Vanessa, I find you uncommonly calm about all of this.”Part of why I was so calm was simple: I was writing it all down. Not in a self-care way. In a vicious way. I felt like a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and finally, after years of obscurity, I had my next great story; I was documenting everything.While writing, I felt I was in the great
On High Tea (opens the original)
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I was just in England with my kid to celebrate her eighteenth birthday and we went for high tea. She asked if this was ever “real.” Did people really do High Tea? Starting when?I told her I didn’t know, but that didn’t stop me from theorizing.It’s one of my more charming traits. Saying, “I don’t know,” then blustering on. I said, it was most likely part of the colonial export of white, British civility in order to shade their colonized peoples. She laughed at me because I had already been outrag
On Birthday Movies (opens the original)
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Instructions for showing someone your favorite movie:For my birthday I have demanded a ritual from my girls. I get one night: we order pizza, we make ice cream sundaes, and they have to watch a movie of my choosing. I started this tradition when they were young. My hope is that if someday they ever live far afield, they understand that they have to make it back to me sometime in the summer season, in the name of my birthday. I am always looking for ways to lure their future selves back home to m
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