Stephanie Klein Greek Tragedy

Love to love these plates for summer seafood entertaining + the night of 7 fishes
Nope. Not a post about the raunchy sex I’m not having. Lust now, and let’s face it always has, come in the form of purchases.…

Week 3 on Weight Watchers new Points Plus plan, and I’m down 12.4 lbs. Yes, their scales are baking recipe accurate—2 cups plus 1 teaspoon? Really?—down to two tenths of a pound. I still have 13 more lbs. to go,…

My ass is tired. It’s 2pm. I awoke at 7:30am (went to bed midnight-ish), cooked kids’ breakfasts, cleaned dishes, washed fruits, hulled strawberries. Logged my food in a journal. Am still exhaustivo. Down 7 lbs., week one of Weight Watchers…

The right tomatoes make all the difference. Yes, that’s right. They save lives, lasagnas*, and sunburned skin throughout the world (soaked in buttermilk). Saying I’ve experimented with different canned tomatoes is like saying “But I didn’t inhale.” It’s something I’ve…

Ugly isn’t the kindliest of words, but out of the looks grab-bag, it’s what I drew that morning. I’m sick, have been since New Year’s Eve, sinus infection, maybe. Went to the doctor, taking antibiotics, still can’t breathe. Everything on…

From a no-bullshit reader named Maggie: The weight stuff is getting old. You wrote a book about your weight issues and it seemed at one point you were happy with yourself. Shit or get off the pot with this and…

I didn’t like that I was the fattest one in the room
That I kept pulling on my clothes hoping they’d hide a bulge
I felt self-conscious when I had to get up and walk away, thinking of what my…

I have moved. My desk is no longer on the sofa or in the scrapbooking room, no. I have relocated to the New York guest room, where, behind French glass doors, I am, as I type this very post, on…