Kristin van Ogtrop was named Managing Editor of Real Simple magazine in 2003.Perhaps it’s too much to ask, but I’m hoping that somehow, some way, the Russians can save my BlackBerry.I’ve been trying to follow this summer’s email-hacking stories, which seem to have as many twists as Debbie Wasserman

It’s 10.30 on a Saturday morning and I am in a London hotel room, shuffling awkwardly from foot to foot while doing half-hearted jazz hands. To my right, a woman — late twenties, leather jeans — kicks out her Converse, arms windmilling like a child at Disneyland. On my left, a ...Continue

It’s 10.30 on a Saturday morning and I am in a London hotel room, shuffling awkwardly from foot to foot while doing half-hearted jazz hands. To my right, a woman — late twenties, leather jeans — kicks out her Converse, arms windmilling like a child at Disneyland. On my left, a ...Continue

Being a mom is hard — especially being a first-time mom. There are so many things to worry about: breast-feeding or formula, cloth diapers or disposable, day care or stay at home, vax or no vax, bed-sharing or crib, cry it out or pick them up, spanking or no spanking. You get the idea. Then

There's lots of things we find funny until it happens to us. Falling over in a cafeteria with a tray full of food. A red-carpet nip slip. Accidentally farting into a microphone.Personally, I never found any of those things particularly humorous, and maybe that's why I've karmically ...Continue