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The Tiger-Stripe Cat Cake

We’ve done spooky, Halloween-themed cakes for a few years now, and so this year I thought I’d try something different.

Cat Cake.

See, my son loves cats. LOVES them. He has an especially deep bond with Riggs, who trails him from room to room, sleeps in his closet during the day, and lays next to him reading books (on his back!) like a furry little human at night. But I also didn’t want to test my sculpting powers by going full-on Here Is A Cat, so I had to get a little improvisational.

What I di...

The Improvisational Egg Bake

Look at that stunner! 

Way back when Kendrick and I first moved to our little Upper East Side walk-up, I developed a thing for baked eggs – or, more specifically, oeufs en cocotte, which are eggs baked in cream. I just love how they take something so ordinary, and treat it like a luxury. It’s how weekend mornings should be: slow and a little indulgent.

Which brings me to the baked egg dish I made this weekend: It’s kind of similar the North African dish called shakshuka, except quite a bit mild...

So…How’s That Homeschooling Going?

I lost it.

My daughter, who’s in a learning pod with a classmate and bounces between our house and theirs, seems to sort of enjoy distance learning, or at least tolerate it. Not that she’s actually *learning* much – holy god, the muting and un-muting and kids with their microphones turned up to 10,000% and tl;dr teachers ...

It’s A Vice Presidential Debate Drinking Game!

Thank you, The Bold Italic. (Download a printable PDF here.)

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The Mom Uniform: Autumn Edition

Let’s throw it back to 2019, when I wrote a post that is 2020 in a nutshell if I’ve ever seen one. (Updated with brand-new outfit suggestions.)

Today’s post is a twofer, inspired by a couple of reader questions I received via Insta.

Does comfort and style exist? Can you wear yoga pants but still be stylish? and
I need a Mom Uniform for fall; help me.

The answer to the first question is a resounding “yes,” and am certain that it is so, because otherwise I would be naked. There is just no powe...

Links & Love & Stuff

Chrissy Teigen posted about our book, NBD.

This is my new favorite shade from Static Nails – it makes your fingers look miles long. (And I agree, it makes literally no sense to wear faux nails right now, but it helps me tame my terrible, horrible cuticle-picking habit.)

Plaid fleece jacket by Carve Designs, yes.

I mean, I wear those blue paper ones that come in boxes of 100, so I am clearly not the demographic here, but you do you. (In-Your-Face Luxury: High-End Designer Face Masks for the ...

I Don’t Owe You Anything

me. 2009.

That’s the general consensus on bloggers who share about their personal lives, right? We don’t “owe” our readers anything? It’s what I’ve heard countless times over the years, anyway: Whenever a reader asks me about a topic I don’t feel comfortable touching – the specifics of my finances, for example, or the precise reasons behind my divorce – other readers will jump in, reminding me that what I choose to share (and not share) is…well, my choice. I don’t owe anyone my story.

Except th...

My Reel, If You’re Interested

When you work in TV (or “TV,” whatever that means nowadays; the visual medium has evolved just a smidge since my Clean & Clear girl days), you’re supposed to keep a reel showcasing your latest work. I put together my last official reel in 2013.

It was probably time for an update.

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Lovely Late-Summer Scents

Me as a garden nymph at a home scenting event, 2014

I’m not willing to accept that it’s almost fall, because my internal calendar remains convinced that it’s still April 2020. Or maybe April 2025; who knows! This reluctance-to-embrace-the-new-season is made vastly easier by the fact that it is approximately ten thousand degrees in Southern California at the moment, and I can barely walk my dog around the block without dissolving into a pool of sweat.

You know by now that I’m a bit of a candle o...

Before Summer Ends

‘Tis almost the day when the grill gets covered up for the cold months, and all that lovely fresh corn disappears from the shelves (or becomes terrifying and inedible, as evidenced by the fact that the corn I bought at Trader Joe’s yesterday had actual, living CATERPILLARS in it, and if you think I screamed like Ghostface himself was hanging out inside that husk, you would be correct).

So here are ten recipes that I think you should make lickety-split, before you encounter any surprise beasties...