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 | Oct 27, 2021
Editor’s Note: Now that many of us feel safe to travel again, reading a travel story shouldn’t make us weep with longing as it might have six months ago. So we are republishing some of our favorite travel articles. Here, what a trip to Japan revealed to...
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...
