Julie Gerstenblatt

When I heard that the author of 50 Shades of Gray was going to be speaking at Willow Ridge Country Club in Harrison, NY, I immediately emailed my friend, writer Annabel Monaghan. "You've got to come with me to hear E L James," I begged.

I...

Last week, an Australian lingerie company emailed me to suggest that I use my platform as a blogger for the Huffington Post to promote their website. They offered to compensate me for subtly selling their products in my posts, and invited me to contact them for further information.

"Brett," I ask my husband, "What's the weather like today?" He has just come in from a brisk run and is panting a bit.

"It's nice," he says, a slight hesitation to his voice. He knows what's coming next.

"Nice cool or nice warm?"...

Let's agree to agree: chocolate is delicious, and it's also good for you. But, like all great love stories, this one has a twist: in order to reap any health benefits, the chocolate you eat should be dark, dark, dark.

Here are some Real Facts paired with some Julie...

Amy Chua, also known as The Tiger Mother, received a high six-figure advance for her 2011 memoir. In this book, she recounts in great detail the ways in which she uses traditional Chinese parenting methods to drive her daughters towards perfection in the arts. This is old news, of course....

The box arrived from Bloomingdale's just as my husband, Brett, was walking out the door to attend a neighborhood meeting one evening. That's bad timing, when the UPS guy comes face-to-face with one's husband. The uniformed man stands at your doorstep, a guilty look on his face, as he hands...

Confession: I read children's books. For fun. Like, all the time. Did you get hooked on Harry Potter? Torn apart by Twilight? Did you hunger for more of The Hunger Games? Did you think, well, I'll only do it this one time, because they're making the series into movies and...

Last year, my husband and I created a matrix in order to determine how to win an Oscar in 14 easy steps (which you can read here). This year, we are handing out pretend Academy Awards.

So, without further ado, from our imaginations to your...

I admire the British for so many reasons. They have a rich history of beheading enemies of the monarchy without ever compromising afternoon tea. They colonized half the globe and yet managed to ensure that no other colony's accent would sound exactly like theirs. In particular, I idolize the Brits...

The lights are low. I have a glass of white wine in my left hand and a pen in my right. My high definition TV is flickering in front of me like a fire in a faux log cabin on a one-on-one date in Park City, Utah. It's Monday night,...

Let me get one thing straight here, Oh Moms In Desperate Need of Erotica: I am not joking. This is not about getting hot and bothered by watching your husband clean the kitchen. It's not even about getting turned on by hiring a sexy electrician to boss around your kitchen....

Certain songs make me nostalgic for a particular time or place. The first kiss song. That break-your-heart, break-up song. The crackling ember campfire song that makes me long for sleep away camp even though I hated sleep-away camp. When these tunes come on the radio as I'm driving along in...

In the weeks leading up to Groupon's IPO -- which had its incredibly successful public debut Friday -- there has been much talk about the magic (or lack thereof) that makes Groupon, well, Groupon. Is it their gorilla marketing campaign? Their ginormous subscriber list? A sales force that rivals in...

Earlier this week on this very Huffington Post, Andrea Savage gave us a look at the role that cunnilingus played in this year's Academy Award nominees for best actress, noticing quite rightly that three out of the five women nominated were recipients of oral sex in their films.

A lot of people wonder how it is that Jewish parents raise such stereotypically successful kids. They wonder what these parents do to produce so many doctors and lawyers, so many rabbis and Hollywood producers, one Itzhak Perlman and the occasional Madoff. They want to know what it's like inside...