Melanie Hamlett

When this song came on, all the French folks around me dropped to the ground and started passing each other over their heads. Like, the guys I was with dropped their drinks to rush and do this. It’s Some tradition here in southern France that happens with this song and one other song come on…

I was asked to do an interview for this podcast and it’s one of my best ever. They were like “hey we interview Nobel prize winners and former presidents of countries and we want to interview you for your Harper’s Bazaar piece” and I was like well that doesn’t make sense but OKAY. Click here…

I went to this farm party this weekend. I got to learn how to play these giant drums, ate a 4 course homemade meal (from local farms) and listened to three concerts. If I wasn’t dogsitting this weekend, I would have slept under the stars too with the rest of them. This was truly a…

  Two years ago I visited Lyon for the first time, spent those 4 days with the man I ended up dating long distance for a year, and watched these same fireworks from a rooftop with him and a bunch of cool French people I met. I fell in love with this city in those…

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    Link here for the story. My story starts at around 22 minutes but listen to the whole thing if you have time! It’s about how toxic masculinity appears in tomboys like me and how a bunch of teenage boys taught me how to overcome it on the most bonkers backpacking course ever. If…

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  I wrote this after my cougar piece for Glamour became tabloid news

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This is one of my funnier ones