by Valerie Frankel | Jul 1, 2024
A friend of mine once said that travel is like personal archaeology, and that feels 100% true to me. You go to a site, dig around, and make important discoveries about yourself. Travel also unearths hidden truths about relationships. If two people travel well, they...
by Valerie Frankel | May 28, 2023
Several years ago, at 42, I purposefully got off the cycle of dieting, losing weight, cheating, binging, regaining, and starting all over again. Chronic dieting, I concluded after a lifetime of doing it, was pointless. I freed myself of the burden of losing those last...
by Valerie Frankel | Sep 25, 2019
I’ve been writing the Next TribeTest column for three months now, and something fascinating is happening to me because of it. As always, I tend to gravitate toward women’s stories in my entertainment choices, but if a male-centric film or show was compelling enough, I...
by Valerie Frankel | Jul 23, 2019
The famous Bechdel Test, created by graphic artist, Fun Home author, and MacArthur “Genius” Alison Bechdel, sets a low bar for female representation in entertainment with three basic criteria: (1) The work has two named women; (2) who talk to each other; (3) about...
by Valerie Frankel | Mar 21, 2019
I have always been a goal-oriented person, a maker of mental “To Do” lists that update constantly in my head. In my professional life—as a magazine editor and writer, author, and, for the last 10 years, a ghostwriter of books by celebrities and public figures—I’ve...
