I know, I know, the Olympics ended Sunday (with that weird Spice Girls reunion/closing ceremony). But I was at the beach last week, so these are some late musings.

Every four years there is always a lot of talk about …

Well, hello there, and welcome to National Eating Disorder Awareness Week.

According to NEDA, “The aim of NEDAwareness Week is to ultimately prevent eating disorders and body image issues while reducing the stigma surrounding eating disorders and improving access to …

Quick disclaimer: It’s iVillage (not VA) style to turn headlines into rhetorical questions. Of course you all know that my answer to that question is “a thousand times, yes, good Lord, stop asking me that!”

So the critical tone of …

As y’all know, I don’t have the greatest track record for sticking with those ubiquitous 30-day blog challenges — I tend to get distracted and fall off the wagon or just start making up my own rules. This might be …

Whoops! Forgot to tell y’all about last Thursday’s Never Say Diet post last Thursday. So here we are (Happy Monday!):

It’s inspired by this post by Autumn over on The Beheld, plus the rather genius teachings of the Alexander …

The Pretty Price Check: Your Friday round-up of how much we paid for beauty this week.

• 32 percent of teenage girls have used a tanning bed in the past year, and 81 percent report tanning outside, despite hearing all

And you thought yesterday was awesome, what with me talking all about beauty and feminism and the sisterhood of the Brazilian. (Are we making that a thing yet? C’mon!) Today I’m over on The Beheld again, talking about the three …

My new blog friend Autumn Whitefield-Madrano writes an awesome and thoughtful blog called The Beheld, which you should already know about because I link to it allll the time in the Price Check and on Twitter.

So there was …