Can True Love Transcend Sweatpants?
A writer reflects on her history of love and loss after actress Eva Mendes, wife of the highly desirable Ryan Gosling, declares that fleece sounds the death knell to marriage.
Humor
My Date Was 50 Shades of … Not My Thing
Following on the heels of a very romantic evening with an office crush, the writer discovers the true meaning of "fetish."
Women Who Have It All Are Bold Enough to Cut the Cheese!
And other secrets of success to consider for your 2015 New Year's resolutions.
My Dad, the Company Man?
The writer’s father was anything but corporate. So when he whisked her and her siblings away to a company picnic, she braced herself for a mortifying adventure.
Remind Me: Why Do I Visit My Family For the Holidays?
The Obama-bashing cousin. The guilt-trip-laying aunt. The manipulations, the fights, the tears. And that's all before dinner.
Dear Julie: Advice About Thanksgiving Invites and a Humorless Friend
DAME’s Friendkeeper tells us how not to spend Turkey Day alone and digs into why a woman’s friend has lost her funny.
Roberta P. Is Missing
Thanks to a new iOS-enabled Bluetooth chip, you may never lose your sunglasses again. But they may lose you. And those shades know what you did last summer.
Jessie’s Girl Might Not Be So Into Piña Coladas
After decades of contemplation, a writer delivers responses to these pleading iconic soft-rock songs.
The Brooke Astor of France Is the New Nigerian Prince
What would you do if a famously rich stranger reached out to you by email and offered you her family's fortune?