The talented Aimee Ferris, whose new book WILL WORK FOR PROM DRESS just came out on Tuesday (congrats, Aimee!), has an ongoing PROMAPALOOZA with various YA authors and their prom pics. Here’s the game: she posts the pictures but doesn’t reveal who the author is. Readers guess and then, Aimee lets the secret out. It’s [...]
I’m still digging out of the mess of stuff I had to send home from my parents’ house over the holidays. There is a lesson here: If you can throw it away, do it. If only I had known that a few years ago. But, there have been some gems from all this stuff. Last [...]
I went home to visit my parents over the holidays and they had a surprise waiting for me. No, not a new car or even a cashmere sweater. Instead, they pulled out ALL of the boxes of stuff I was saving for posterity (or something like that). All fifteen boxes, each filled to the brim [...]
New York Daily News editor Rosemary Black interviewed me on Friday for a story she wrote (in today’s paper) called “The Battle of the Hemlines: Teens Stick up For Short Skirts.” We talked for a while about why fashion matters to teens and I kept thinking about it all weekend. Here are my thoughts in [...]
With graduation for most senior classes looming (and in some cases, already done) I thought it would be good to compile some of my all-time favorite commencement addresses. And while most of these are for college students, any high school grad will appreciate them: Author Anna Quindlen’s talk at Villanova became a bestselling book, A [...]
I was reading this article about parents giving teenagers cars for graduation and it made me wonder what the most common graduation gift is…I know I didn’t get a car and neither did most of my friends. But it’s not like I was expecting one. My parents had a celebration dinner with my family and [...]
The theme for my senior prom was “Angel.” Now, I appreciate all the effort the senior class officers put into planning a great prom, but Angel? Really? If my date (and then boyfriend) would’ve called me angel I would’ve puked all over my burgundy dress. It was based on that Sarah McLachlan song, appropriately titled [...]
While I was on book tour, I got to speak to a bunch of high school and junior high students in all different cities about how to deal with their parents. Let me just say, these were by far the best events I did. The teenagers had the best questions and we had really good [...]
My high school started at 7:30am. Every morning. Every weekday. It was excruciating. Looking back, I have no idea how I managed to ever show up to my homeroom class on time. Not to mention all the days I went to early assemblies and school council meetings and had to get their at the ungodly [...]
I found the funniest video online. It’s a trailer for a new MTV reality show called The Paper, which is all about a high school newspaper. I was a features writer on my high school newspaper – and I am embarrassed to say that I can’t even remember the name of the paper. Our mascot [...]
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