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How To Air-Dry Your Hair…The Right Way

I am 39 years old, and I literally JUST discovered that a) I have really quite curly hair, and b) it’s pretty. Turns out that I’ve spent nearly four decades Doing It Wrong.

Products mentioned in video:

“It’s A 10” Miracle Leave-In Conditioner Plus Keratin

Frizz-Ease “Air Dry Waves” Styling Foam

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Three Recipes You Need To Make This Fourth Of July

All three of these recipes are confusingly easy (the dip on the top left in particular, which has a total of two ingredients), and you have to make them. I insist. Trust me.

First up: two-ingredient chili-cheese dip.

Now ...

A Promise

Over the years I’ve written eight books, and collaborated with a number of brilliant, talented illustrators and coauthors. None has been a person of color. This is going to change.

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Let’s Tour A Dream House, Shall We?

My absolute favorite/least favorite thing about my job doing marketing for Malibu’s mobile home parks: The fact that I spend every day looking at houses that I would very much like to own, but do not.

Case in point: This house, which actually made me gasp the first time I stepped foot inside. The view! The ridiculously perfect styling! The walk-in closet of my actual dreams!

Learn about the ins and outs of owning a Malibu mobile home here, and click here to see everything that’s currently on th...

What It’s Like To Eat Out Right Now, Cheesecake Factory Edition

OK, so going forward I will 1000% be doing my best to spend all my dining-out dollars at smaller, locally-owned establishments, but if you’ve ever had the bread basket at The Cheesecake Factory, you know why my children (and, okay, me) chose it for our first restaurant meal in…four months? Twenty years? Several decades?

It’s been awhile. I was ready for some food that I did not cook myself.

So for this post, let’s answer all your burning questions about what a Cheesecake Factory experience is l...

Links & Love & Stuff

If you buy one thing I recommend in your entire time reading RG, it should really be this chair. It’s so comfortable I literally sleep in it. Like, overnight.

Based on Jamie Stone’s rec, I tried LaNeige’s Lip Sleeping Mask. I was initially skeptical, because isn’t it basically just…lip balm? But it’s WONDERFUL. Absolutely the perfect texture, with zero stickiness or gloppiness, and leaves your lips so soft. I see no reason to only wear it to sleep.

If you’re looking for a Father’s Day gift, ...

What It’s Really Like To Travel In An Amtrak Sleeper Car

I’ve been thinking a lot about this summer – specifically, how (if?) I’m going to see my parents. I’m anxious about the fall bringing another outbreak, and not seeing them for an entire year (or more) doesn’t feel like a thing I can handle. I also don’t know if we even technically can travel this summer – it feels like the rules are changing on a near-daily basis – but I figured it’s worth coming up with some ideas just in case we can make it happen.

I’ve thought about risking a flight, then qu...

Education

A couple of years ago, I got in an unexpected confrontation with a woman at a party. It was during the era right after Trump was elected, when I found myself constantly angry, unable to stop talking about the state of the world even with people who didn’t especially want to talk about it themselves – and who certainly did not want to talk about it at a party, when they were theoretically supposed to be having, you know…fun.

Eventually, this woman – I had never met her before; she was an old fri...

Blinded

On Thursday evening – four days ago – I got in a car crash. It was bad. It was also my fault.

I was driving through the middle of nowhere – headed North along the coast, on my way to be with a friend in crisis. The sun was at that point just above the horizon when it’s blazing directly into your eyes, and you have to flick the visor from side to side to side with one hand while you steer with the other just to see the pavement ahead of you.

I didn’t expect a stop sign anywhere along that partic...

How To Talk To Your White Children About George Floyd

Last night, Kendrick and I were talking about Christian Cooper – the man who videotaped a white woman in Central Park flipping her lid and telling the cops that “an African-American man” was “threatening” her, despite the fact that he was demonstrably doing nothing of the sort – and George Floyd, whose story is so heartbreaking it defies description. About how easily the former story could have taken the the turn that the latter’s did. Our son overheard us, and started asking questions. We answ...