10 Bridesmaid Dresses, A Retrospective
At 17, I’m asked by a friend two years my senior to a be a bridesmaid in her
wedding, and despite having only recently gotten my braces off, I take it as
Sarah Schwartz
“Like Lilith Fair, minus the angst”
Among the largely unacknowledged truths of contemporary female life is that
women’s foundational relationships are as likely to be with one another as they
are with the romantic partners who, we’re
For the Daughters of my Friends
Last winter, two of my closest friends gave birth to baby girls within a week of
each other. I am nearing 30 but lucky enough to still count my circle of
girlfriends from
Harder than Forgetting: A review of Brandi Carlile’s By the Way, I Forgive You
“The last thing I want on this record is for it to sound like I’m using
forgiveness in the white evangelical use of the term,” Brandi Carlile explains
to Rolling Stone’s