Whatever you think of The Real Housewives, you have to admire Bethenny Frankel, who went on to have her own reality show, Bethenny Ever After, was first runner-up on The Apprentice: Martha Stewart and was voted into the finalist spot on Skating with the Stars. She now takes on the role of life coach, sharing…
My daughter, Sara, has been a huge fan of surfer Bethany Hamilton from the moment she heard about her getting back on her board to compete after losing her left arm to a shark, eight years ago. Sara was ten at the time, and she made me drive her to Barnes and Noble to buy…
I couldn’t wait to talk to Claudia Sternbach, author of Reading Lips: A Memoir of Kisses, because there is nothing more fun to talk about than kisses! I also snuck in a couple of questions about memoir-writing for any of you who want to share your own story with the world. Be sure to enter…
The self-help genre is more popular than ever as we try to grasp control of some aspect of our lives. With more and more titles being released daily, we pored through the piles of books we’ve recently received to offer you a dozen of the best. Whether you want to lose weight, be a better…
Joshua Braff’s family-drama novel, Peep Show, begins as the camera-toting David Arbus nears his 1975 high school graduation. Braff marks each new chapter with street photography as though possibly photographed by the protagonist himself. The allusion to famed real-life photographer Diane Arbus is clear. The story spans a few pivotal years of David’s turbulent coming…
