Meghan Markle’s dad, Thomas Markle, apparently wants to go to the royal wedding, after all. Just one day after telling TMZ he will sit out the May 19 nuptials to avoid embarrassing the royal family or his daughter following a staged paparazzi photo scandal, Thomas Markle has contacted the outlet again to announce he’s changed…
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At first, my husband refused to spend $500 to ship a dining room table from Cleveland to New Jersey. He thought it made no sense. (“Why not just buy a table at Ikea?”) I pointed out that the deal included six chairs and four leaves, that it opened up to seat twenty people and that…
Read moreI’ve wanted a signature scent since I was old enough to convince my mom to buy me glitter-filled perfumes from Claire’s. As I’ve gotten older, I’ve graduated to more sophisticated, less sparkly fragrances, but I still love the idea of being immediately identifiable by an amazing smell. After the perfume that I’d been wearing since…
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In the spring of 1992, I was a new mother of a beautiful baby boy. His father and I were living in Detroit and happily struggling with 3 a.m. feedings and diaper changes. I obsessed over not being able to distinguish my baby’s “feed me” cries from his “I’m wet” cries. In the midst of…
Read moreActress Halle Berry spoke out on Monday about her role as Catwoman in the 2003 movie of the same name that wound up being—and there’s no way around this—a box-office bomb. For Berry, coming off of 2002’s Oscar-winning performance in Monster’s Ball, it could have put a stop to her Hollywood dreams. As it turns…
Read moreMy mother doesn’t think she’s a feminist, but she is. She chose to quit working to raise her children, and probably identifies more with Carmela Soprano than Hillary Clinton. But since I was young, she always told me that I didn’t have to choose the same life as she did. “Don’t just get married and…
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