On our most recent double-episode, we covered breakups because of chronic illness. Here, writer Katrina Blank shares a bit more of the story she tells us in Part II about living with Systemic Exertion Intolerance Disease. This has been slightly edited for length and clarity. Why did you like Joey to begin with? The day…
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Endings #2: Curtains Up and Books Out, with Jen Glantz!
March 6th Making it look easy is the point, right? Writers, actors, and artists of all sorts tell stories about real life experiences, defending their choices, owning their truth, and leaving a trail of wisdom in their creatively-tuned path. We see them at the climax, the triumph, the TED talk — the ENDING. But what…
Endings #1: Friendship Through Divorce, with Suzanne Riss and Jill Sockwell
February 27th What’s a life experience you’re holding onto that you wish you could emotionally shut the door on? What’s holding you back? Who has helped guide you through growth the most? What positive new tactics or tools did you pick up to battle the tough stuff along the way? And do you wish the…
Relationship Goals for Valentine’s Day!
February 13th We just wrapped our series on Power Couples — five couples in hospitality who work alongside each other by day and someone manage to still love each other enough to share a bed together at night. The series came about for deliciously selfish reasons: we both need a little inspiration in the healthy marriage…
Power Couples! Michael Whiteman and Rozanne Gold!
Monday, January 30th In 1976, the restaurant Windows on the World opened on the 106th and 107th floors of the World Trade Center’s north tower. As president of Baum + Whiteman Worldwide, Michael Whiteman was one of the restaurateurs behind the space; Rozanne Gold their Chef-Director. Together, the two opened several other iconic projects over the…
Power Couples! Stacy Adimando and Steve Graf
January 23rd Stacy Adimando and Steve Graf are a testament to risking big for love whenever and wherever you find it. She was living in Brooklyn, he in Northern California. But when they met working at a food festival in Portland, Oregon, they both felt something strong enough to give a long-distance relationship a chance….
Single and Fabulous! (or, the best ladies who lunch roundtable show ever!)
Six ladies come together to discuss the challenges and triumphs of living the single lady life… for now.
Fostering Healthy Families, with Author and Foster Family Advocate Regina Calcaterra, Esq.
Listen When we discuss family love, we refer to biological families by default. But what about foster family relationships? What does it take for them to succeed, and who suffers the most when they fail? On today’s show, we welcome Regina Calcaterra, the co-author of Girl Unbroken and the memoir Etched in Sand. Regina shares how the…
Atlas Obscura: Food, Love, and Travel with Ella Morton
October 17th What are our best travel memories with romantic partners? Sexiest? Most frustrating? What part does travel play in our hopeful romantic futures? And what do our desires — highbrow, lowbrow, and everything in between — say about who we are and how we love? On today’s show, Ella Morton — co-author of ATLAS…
I Just Texted To Say I Love You! With Melissa Stanger and Shana Lebowitz
September 26th When it comes to romantic communication, texting and online messaging can be gentle introductions into IRL conversation, or mediums in which you can royally screw another person. Some of us daters of a certain age – ahem – started this whole dating thing before cell phones were glued into our hands. Others grew…
LIFE Calls for a Drink! with Sommelier and Author Diane McMartin
August 8th Ah, alcohol. It can be a first-date necessity, when nerves and questions and vulnerabilities are at their peak. Or it can be our greatest downfall, when “just one more” turns into “one-plus-four too many.” On today’s show, we discuss how alcohol can help or hinder early love, sharing our worst first-date sloppiness, and…
Unrequited Love with Author Lisa A. Phillips
FEBRUARY 1ST, 2015 We’ve all experienced some sort of unrequited love; pining over someone who doesn’t quite realize the romantic possibilities we can so clearly see. But what happens when affection turns into obsession? When our desires have so much control over us that we can’t see the world clearly? On today’s show, we talk…
IT’S NOT YOU! with Author Sara Eckel
JANUARY 4TH, 2016 For our first show of the new year and to kick off our second season (!), we’re recapping what we learned about dating in 2015 and setting dating goals for the upcoming year. Then we’re joined by It’s Not You author Sara Eckel, whose book dispels 27 myths single women have thrust…
Editor Jesse Hirsch Talks Food Work and Break Ups
NOVEMBER 23RD, 2015 This week, Jacqueline swaps her general positivity for crank (as she wrote recently for BlogHer). So Ben grills her about dates canceling the day of, how ghosting is socially acceptable now, and how singletons keep their cool with friend after friend pairs off and disappears. What can we be doing to date…
The Lady Writer’s Show
NOVEMBER 2ND, 2015 On today’s show, Jacqueline and Ben explore how putting a call out to listeners for dates has manifested in ACTUAL DATES, and the benefits of getting set up by friends. How does it work? DOES it work? What can we gain from going offline and letting friends of friends set us up?!…
Jessica Tom on her novel, FOOD WHORE…
OCTOBER 19TH, 2015 We opened the show with a deep discussion on “Offline Dating”. When you’re so sick of online dating and love your 3-dimensional life, how do you take dating offline? Ben gave Jacqueline some stellar tips (hint, ladies: just give him your number!) that she’s going to put into good use now that she’s cancelled…
Anxiety with Author/Editor Kat Kinsman!
OCTOBER 12TH, 2015 Kat Kinsman is the Editor of Tasting Table and the author of the upcoming book – Hi, Anxiety – that’s coming out in April. She shares her own history with overcoming anxiety as a New York food writer, and hosts Jacqueline and Ben chime in with how anxiety has affected their dating…
Talking Drama in Theatre and Drama in Love with Antony Raymond!
“Dating today feels like a game where the first person to say “I love you” loses.” CLICK HERE FOR OUR INTERVIEW WITH ANTONY!
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