The Color of Love

I’m not one to read a lot of magazines, but the ones I do read are Glamour, Allure, Marie Claire, and the occasional Essence. I really like those magazines because those are the ones that tend to pay particular attention to their readers. I was reading the March issue of Essence this weekend when I […]

Make Something Cool, Win $10,000

AT&T has just announced its 2010 Big Mobile On Campus Challenge. If you’ve got the skills to make an innovative e-learning mobile app, the $10,000 scholarship that goes to the winner will definitely help pay the bills. Last year’s winners created an app called Rover that connects Harvard students, faculty, administrators, and local merchants.

This is My Generation

Have you noticed a shift? A shift in culture and parenting as well as in our hopes for the future? Or maybe it’s me. I’ve noticed that the kids I babysit and come across who are in high school or younger than me are, in general, just different. They are being raised differently, taught differently, […]

Toddlers and Tiaras and Tantrums

My mom told me the other day that when I was a baby, some woman came up to her and told her that she should put me in beauty pageants. She told me this while we were watching this absurd reality show called Toddlers and Tiaras. It’s on TLC and it follows families who have […]

The Psychology of Fear

When I was about ten, I was obsessed with a series of YA novels called Fearless.
From the mind of Francine Pascal (creator of the equally-implausible high school fantasy Sweet Valley High), the series revolved around a 17-year-old girl named Gaia Moore who was born without the gene for fear. Because many teenage girls are sort […]

Leonardo DiCaprio Fan: Growing Up Tween

Like most tweens in 1997, I saw Titanic for the first time, and that was enough to turn me into somewhat of a Leonardo DiCaprio fan — you know, making my dad subscribe me to a Leonardo DiCaprio merchandise magazine so that I could make him buy me Leonardo DiCaprio coffee mugs, mouse pads, calendars […]

The Hollywood Hoax

I watch The Bachelor, Big Brother, Survivor, The Real World, American Idol, Project Runway, The Real Housewives of New Jersey, and Top Chef, to name a few. What’s the common denominator? These are all reality shows. Reality TV has taken television by storm. It all started with The Real World in 1992. I was too […]

This Is Not the Jersey Shore

I’m sure you’ve heard about the new show on MTV, Jersey Shore. In case you haven’t, it’s about eight 20-somethings who venture down to Seaside Heights, New Jersey to work on the boardwalk and live and party in a house together. According to the network, “MTV peels back yet a different curtain to follow eight […]

Boozin’ Through College

One of the reasons I decided to go to an all girls’ school for college was so that I could get a great education. Over the years, I’ve noticed that because I’m in an all girls’ school, it’s probably true that the quality of education that I’m getting is higher than I would be getting […]

The Politricks of Christmas

It has begun. I’m sure you know what I’m talking about. The music that is being played even though it’s not yet Thanksgiving, the sales, the movies, the influx of people in the mall that has spontaneously regenerated out of thing air as if they have been hibernating for the past six months; the cold […]

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