Good LORD. I’d love to know who thought that was a good idea. Was there a men’s equivalent? (And more importantly, did it have an “empowering” name?)

I have that problem at Madewell! I wish they’d would realize that for some of us “slightly cropped” translates to “looks like she stole her shirt from a toddler”.

I’m a six foot tall woman, and I had to choke back some pretty irritated comments when my friend (an aspiring health coach!) blithely told me that she felt all women should base their diets on 1600 calories per day, and men should eat around 2,000. I’m, what, 2-3 inches taller than the average male? If I limited…

Did you see the Seattle Times article about Mackey’s cosy relationship with Marc Gafni? I always appreciate it when someone in Mackey’s position describes a dude like Gafni—a spiritual leader with a profoundly creepifying past—as “a bold visionary”. It really makes me feel good about paying an extra 15% for…

I would love to know how Trump sees himself. Seriously. Because he obviously cares about how he looks, and yet the end result is so bizarre. I assume he thinks he looks like Robert Redford, while the rest of us see a strategically shaved hamster.

I write book reviews, and every few months I get an email complaining about the lack of Mary Stewart movie adaptations. (They’re right up there with the lack of Georgette Heyer movie adaptations.) I’m not knocking the Mills film—which I’ve never seen—but I get the impression people would like a more overtly sexy…

I’m always irritated by the uncritical admiration of Caitlyn Jenner, too, and I don’t think that feeling is particularly Benghazi-ish. Even if I could set aside the car crash thing (and that’s a *huge* thing to ignore), I think she’s a tremendously shitty parent, who has clung to her fading fame by exploiting her…

And why ELSE would you give a high-end restaurant an additional 20%, if not as a tip to your servers? What else could “service charge” possibly mean—”We’re already super expensive, but hey: running a joint this fancy is pricey, so why don’t you voluntarily give us an additional 20%? Thanks!”

I’m 6 feet tall, but Jcrew’s stuff is completely impractical for me, too. I don’t wear heels with cropped sweatpants, for example, no matter how elegantly insouciant Jcrew insists it looks. Or $500 bejeweled tank tops. Or the truly, impressively hideous “Pull-on Boyfriend Short” (Item #b9922, originally priced at…

Um, France aren’t guppies, and the US won against them in March to take home the Algarve Cup. I’m not saying some of your criticisms aren’t valid, but I wouldn’t be quite THAT pessimistic, either. I think they have a fair-to-middling shot at winning this World Cup, not least because of their reputation. If they can…

Freddy is the BEST. And while I have read and enjoyed many a romance novel featuring an alpha hero, in real life I suspect I’d want to push most of them down a well. Freddy, on the other hand, seems like he’d be a legit delight to live with.

Regarding the whole hapless hero thing—this is why, now and forever, Georgette Heyer’s ‘Cotillion’ is one of my favorite romance novels. The male protagonist of that story is inarticulate, a little goofy, obsessed with his clothing... but he’s actually totally competent at Life, although in a very different way from…

Yeah, the fact that the only Mary Stewart adaptation (to my knowledge, anyway) ever made starred Hayley Mills is both sad and inexplicable.

I have spent the past twenty years wishing for someone to make a movie out of Mary Stewart's 'Nine Coaches Waiting'. I'm serious, I would promise to buy a dozen tickets, contribute to a Kickstarter, whatever it took.

My extended family owns a florist shop, and there can be a flip side to these little exchanges:

The confusion comes from the fact that Solo played a single season for the Sounders Women, which still exists (it's an amateur team, largely unconnected to the MLS's Seattle Sounders) before signing up with the Reign.