"I felt helpless. Until early December, when I got the Idea. Which was that Rainbow would make the Amazing Christmas Comeback..”
- New York Times
"I grew up thinking that manners were the only thing separating us from full-scale anarchy, and to this day, I believe that thank-you notes make the world go round. But I don't want people touching my kid."
- Jezebel
"I'm stress-smiling in a dumb big red hat,
trying to make it seem as if we are just
one big normal family.”
- New York Times
“The day started a long, long time ago, but Daryl Hannah’s got that laid-back, just-woke-up vibe — occasionally stumbling for a word, inserting a slow, easy laugh here and there. And who can blame her?”
– Grist
“When a very young Lisa Bloom noticed the drugstore had an aisle for “Girls’ Toys” (dolls, toy vacuum cleaners and dress-up clothes) and “Boys’ Toys” (guns, cars and money) she urged her mother, prominent feminist attorney Gloria Allred, to sue.”
– mom.me
“The 43-year-old pastor, with Hollywood good looks and a scorching intellect, challenges his flock with the help of a world-class choir. ‘Life is about relationships. It begins with the relationship with God, but it’s about relationships,’ he says. ‘We live for people, we live for each other.’”
– Sunset
“My euphoria sank to somewhere under my spleen. Did Peg think we just took the baby out to the park and did some kind of ceremony with a candle and called it good? Or did she think this was some kind of black-market, back-alley deal?”
– mom.me
“I traded chartreuse silk pumps for black leather Timberlands and figured out how to yield that satisfying crack-and-split from firewood rounds.”
– Grist
"Temporarily going their separate ways, Gene became involved with Bongo, a successful multimillion denim brand. Eventually Barry joined him in California and by 1989 they’d launched Lucky Brand Jeans on their own. Today, the ubiquitous denims adorn derrieres worldwide."
– Cedars-Sinai Catalyst
"I think of the forced hugs with people I barely knew who came to my parents' door. The wrong smells. The awkward seconds until it was over. Being pushed into things I didn't want and I didn't realize were optional."
– Jezebel
Vanessa McGrady is an award-winning journalist, social media strategist and communications professional. But wait, there’s more! She’s also been a playwright, actor, producer and voice-over artist. She can sing “Home on the Range” in Yiddish, which is apropos of nothing.