This story is such a Mélanie story. Totally crazy, funny, a tiny bit scary, and full of sex and life lessons One of the many instruments Hippy Doctor had My beloved Firecracker Shucking corn or something? I don’t even know what I did. I just went along with it. scenes from the…
France’s epic lights festival
This festival brings me to tears every year and I ain’t no crier, OKAY. It’s just so beautiful. The video above and the third one are my favorites. The whales were epic! As someone who worked in production for years in NYC, them forgetting to turn this light off in the right just killed me….
Glamour asked me to write this for all the single ladies
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Glamour had me write about being selfish in bed (the good kind)
Super proud of this one for Glamour magazine. I never hook up with men who don’t care about my orgasm and that critical shift in my standards became a huge source of my newly found high self esteem. Read here
My viral feature for Harper’s Bazaar
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My French Riviera Vacation and a Weird Adult Summer Camp
These photos and videos are all over the place cuz this website kinda sucks and makes it super hard to move stuff around. Oh well! St Tropez is this disturbing little town on the French Riviera full of the grossest display of income quality ever. Beyonce and Brad Pitt’s yacht’s where there that week…
World Cup week here in France
Tonight was magic. I think I educated nearly 60,000 people about title IV. Only women, people of color, minorités, and fathers (of daughters) knew what the hell this sign meant but the rest had never even HEARD of title IX. I hope other countries will perhaps be inspired to apply title 9 type policies towards…
My newest piece for The Daily Beast about the Dukes of Hazzard and racism and stuff
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Another crazy Music festival and weird art show last weekend here in Lyon
Friday was fête de la musique, which is basically a day the whole country parties to music Which included this old man being all rocky balboa. Then there was this festival the next day that had tenchno music and great dancing. But before that started, they had this bizarre protest-like cat walk where they hit…
Another weekend of cool festivals here in France
Sometimes I think there’s more cool stuff to do in this smallish French city than even NYC or LA. Or rather, maybe it’s because the city is small enough you can actually GO to all the cool stuff without sitting in traffic or on a subway for an hour. This weekend was Pride, which got…
Just signed with a new literary agent!
It was a really hard choice and I’m grateful to be in a position to chose instead of waiting to be chosen finally. Cheers to a new chapter in my career and the closest I may ever come to a marriage-type relationship lol. I’m now represented by: JL Stermer at New Leaf Literary Agency
