One of the biggest decisions to make before getting pregnant is how and whether you’ll continue to work and at what intensity. Maybe this is an easy, all-or-nothing answer for you (or maybe you don’t have a choice), and you’ll either continue to work full time or you’ll stay at home full time. If it’s the […]
One of the biggest decisions to make before getting pregnant is how and whether you’ll continue to work and at what intensity. Maybe this is an easy, all-or-nothing answer for you (or maybe you don’t have a choice), and you’ll either continue to work full time or you’ll stay at home full time. If it’s the […]
Recently, I overheard one woman ask a friend to help her recruit volunteers for the list of duties at her daughter’s swim club. “You need to make this a Google document.” “I don’t know anything about that.” “I’ll help you.” They sat on the same side of the table and the one friend who was […]
They define your female curves, respond to your lover’s caress and allow you to nurse your newborn. Sure, they can also hurt like hell just before your period and you may think that yours are either too large or too small. But, trust me, your breasts are precious friends you need to take good care […]
In 1997, the New York Times called Deborah Eisenberg’s short stories “spirited and masterly road maps through sad and forbidding and desolate terrain.” Thirteen years later, the same newspaper cast her among the modern age’s greatest writers: “Eisenberg conveys [her characters’] interiority in such a fine grain that one thinks of Virginia Woolf, if only […]
The 48 stories that Ann Beattie, who teaches at UVA, published in The New Yorker are collected in a new hardcover volume that serves as an invitation to reflect on her long career.
To borrow from “Cheers,” Green House Coffee owner Camille Phillips hopes her new Crozet java spot will be the kind of place where everybody knows your name. “A real old-fashioned sort of place,” she says. Camille Phillips’ new coffeehouse, Green House Coffee, isn’t your average coffeehouse. In addition to java, the shop will also offer […]
"We were probably at the brewery.” Emily Hodson Pelton is recalling a fateful conversation with fellow winemakers Jake Busching and Matthieu Finot, when Busching chimes in. “We said, ‘Wouldn’t it be fun if…?’” Matthieu Finot (left) of King Family Vineyards, Emily Hodson Pelton of Veritas Vineyard and Winery and Jake Busching of Pollak Vineyards combine […]
When my English in-laws recently asked me to explain Thanksgiving, I found myself stumbling over my words. They already knew the bit about the Pilgrims (they were English, too, after all), so I finally blurted, “Basically, you get together to watch football and eat a really big meal.” It sounded completely ridiculous, making me think […]
It seems like just yesterday when we were lighting fireworks or dipping our sandy feet in the ocean. In other words, how is it time for Thanksgiving already? Chef Tucker Yoder will prepare a Thanksgiving feast at Clifton Inn come Thursday. In case you were as blindsided by the arrival of Turkey Day as we […]
I met with two songwriters behind the Red Satellites, guitarist Drew Carroll and singer Kevin Hivick, for caffeine and conversation last week, but mostly to ask them, in light of rumors that they’ve been banned from certain venues for breaking stuff, what it feels like to be considered the most dangerous band in Charlottesville. The tinkly […]