I’ll be reading at Words in Maplewood next week, on the 21st at 7:30. It should be lots of fun, and these things usually degenerate into a big old chatfest, especially if there’s wine involved. I hope to see you there!

Hi, all,

Below is a piece I was quoted in–I thought the writer made some interesting points. I remember watching the GenX movie Reality Bites back when it first came out. I was supposed to identify with Winona Ryder, who was appalled by, yet attracted to, Ethan Hawke’s slacker character. She of course winds up with him at the end, nasty nicotine-stained fingers, joblessness and all. I, too, thought he was hot, but couldn’t help thinking thinking how totally irritating it would be to actually be with him.  From there I couldn’t relate to any of the characters, who were meant to be me and my friends. I didn’t think the movie depicted “us,” GenXers, accurately at all.

Anyhow, I’d love to hear your thoughts.

Photograph by: Ottawa Citizen, Files

Come as you are, as you were, as I want you to be

— Nirvana (1991)

OTTAWA — In 1986, when I was in my third year of journalism school, we made a parody video of Tears Are Not Enough. We called it Careers There Aren’t Enough. I played Joni Mitchell.

Tears was one in a run of We Are The World-type songs recorded by “supergroups” for worthy causes. Today’s young people would probably invite Craig Kielburger to deliver an inspirational speech and then collect loonies. Back in 1986, our response was to skewer the earnest effort, which went on to raise $3.2 million for the hungry.

READ THE REST OF THE ARTICLE HERE

I can’t figure out how to post this so it looks pretty, so you’ll just have to click HERE.

Wrote this for Wowowow.com–enjoy!

09/20/2010 12:00 am
Life
10 Cool Things No One Tells You About Getting Older

Author Stephanie Dolgoff reveals why aging is actually fun.

I’ve got two little kids, so the words “When you’re older” come flying out of my mouth several times a day. It’s one of those “mom phrases” that used to frustrate the hell out of me when my own mother used it, so I swore that I never would. And yet here I am doing it: “You can get your ears pierced when you’re older.” “When you’re older, you can stay up until 10.” “You’ll understand why mommy and daddy scream, ‘Unless you’re bleeding, you need to go away!’ through the locked bedroom door — WHEN YOU’RE OLDER!!”

Used in this particular context, this phrase often refers to something cool that your children are not mature enough to have, experience or understand. And while there are some crap things about aging — spend a half hour in any retirement community, and you’ll get it before the mah jong tiles have been put away — I wrote a whole book about the things that are unexpectedly fantastic about moving into midlife. To that end, here are 10 of the good things about getting older that you may not know — or may not have thought to appreciate. READ THE FULL ARTICLE HERE

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Today’s Today Show clip! Lots of fun.

Some Formerlies are good to leave behind. A few of mine I’m glad I left in the backseat of the figurative taxi of time: Formerly Bulimic, Formerly a People-pleaser, Formerly Overly Malleable. But there are things you never want to stop being, and you want to do what you can to hang onto them. If you’re Formerly Fit, for instance, you can definitely move yourself once again in the direction of fit, if it’s worth it to you. (That’s the thing about being a Formerly–you do it or you don’t, but you don’t spend much time on self-recrimination either way.)

I’m not Formerly Fit. I’m Fairly Fit for a Formerly. My abs, however…quite possibly a lost cause, and that would be OK with me, but for the fact that my lower back hurts if I don’t at least do something to tighten them up. Here’s a little piece from SELF.com on how to do just that.

An option is just that–an option–but this is still plenty exciting. This from Deadline Hollywood.

ABC Hot On ‘My Formerly Hot Life’ Memoir

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Book adaptations continued their hot streak this buying season with another TV deal. After interest from several networks, ABC has nabbed the rights to author Stephanie Dolgoff’s bestselling memoir My Formerly Hot Life for a potential half-hour single-camera series. Helmer Julie Anne Robinson is attached to direct and executive produce, while Dolgoff and Christy Fletcher and Rebecca Gradinger of Fletcher & Co. will co-exec produce. Based on Dolgoff’s blog, My Formerly Hot Life is a comedic look at the good, the bad, and the ugly moments in a woman’s life as she adjusts to the realization that she is no longer forever 21. READ THE WHOLE THING HERE.

Author Stephanie Dolgoff Offers Humorous Essays On Growing Older

Q:  Stephanie can you tell us about your background and how you became a writer?

A:  I’ve been writing ever since my last month of college. I’d never written more than a term paper, but I was so frustrated by the pressure I felt to figure out what I was going to be for the rest of my life that I just sat down and ranted on paper about “shoulds,” self-imposed and otherwise, and after that you couldn’t stop me from writing.  READ THE WHOLE ARTICLE HERE

This from GetHatched.com, Desperate Housewives star Teri Hatcher’s site.

3 Reasons You’re Even Hotter After 35

One day Stephanie Dolgoff—New York City magazine editor, writer, wife, and mother of twin girls—woke up and realized she was not the woman she used to be. Cute guys on the train didn’t flirt with her anymore. She couldn’t drink too much wine or stay up too late the way she used to. She had to wear more makeup to make it look like she wasn’t wearing any makeup. And rather than being targeted for the latest cool tech gadgets, she saw herself reflected in commercials for Swiffer and whole-grain pasta.

Dolgoff, 43, started jokingly referring to herself as “formerly hot”—and the idea took off. READ THE WHOLE THING HERE

Fun Q&A from Skirt!.com