Karen Stabiner is the author of seven books. The Empty Nest: 31 Parents Tell the Truth About Relationships, Love, and Freedom After the Kids Fly the Coop will be published in May 2007. My Girl: Adventures with a Teen in Training was a finalist for the 2005 Books for a Better Life Award and has just been released in paperback as Reclaiming Our Daughters. Other titles include All Girls: Single-Sex Education and Why It Matters, and To Dance with the Devil: The New War on Breast Cancer, a New York Times Notable Book. A regular contributor to the Los Angeles Times Opinion section as well as to major publications, she lives in Santa Monica with her husband and her daughter, Sarah, who leaves home for college in the fall of 2007.

For more information, visit Karen's page on EveryWoman'sVoice.com

Sarah Dietz is a freshman at New York University. She grew up in Santa Monica, California before abandoning sunshine for humidity and snow. She is the daughter of fellow blogger Karen Stabiner but – unlike her mother – she does not intend to become a writer when she grows up. Living up to the stereotype of the classic undecided freshman, she's taking classes in several different fields and refuses to make a commitment to any of them.

Blog Entries by Karen Stabiner And Sarah Dietz

Lollapalooza Day Three: Here's One Celebrity McCain Can't Link to Obama

Posted August 5, 2008 | 11:07 AM (EST)


Karen Stabiner:
It's over. Tens of thousands of broken plastic beer glasses and Smart Water bottles later, Lollapalooza is over for another year. The dust has quite literally settled, the clean-up crew is earning its money big-time, and lots of fans with new t-shirts have gone home.

The guy...

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Lollapalooza Day Two: Don't Worry, Be Happy

Posted August 4, 2008 | 10:23 AM (EST)


Karen Stabiner and Sarah Dietz are mother/daughter music fans attending the Lollapalooza music festival in Chicago.

Sarah Dietz:
I don't know if it was the appearance of a breeze that calmed down the Lollapalooza crowd the second day or just the fact that they still had enough drugs and...

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Lollapalooza, Day One: When Push Comes to Shove

Posted August 2, 2008 | 12:42 PM (EST)


KAREN:

Note to the boy trying to turn a plastic Smart Water bottle into a bong: Smoke enough of those super-heated estrogens and you're going to get in touch with your feminine side in ways you never imagined.

We're at Chicago's Lollapalooza music festival, two of thousands...

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Stand and Be Counted

Posted July 29, 2008 | 03:19 PM (EST)


Karen Stabiner and Sarah Dietz are mother/daughter music fans, headed to Chicago for the Lollapalooza music festival August 1-3. Watch this space for more posts about the trip.

SARAH DIETZ:

I'll be honest: I didn't really have any overwhelming desire to go see Nine Inch Nails on Sunday, the third...

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Rock Around the Clock

Posted July 17, 2008 | 01:18 PM (EST)


Karen Stabiner and Sarah Dietz are mother/daughter music fans, headed to Chicago for the Lollapalooza music festival August 1-3. Watch this space for more posts about the trip.

Karen Stabiner:Trust me, I do not belong to any demographic that Radiohead cares about, and Kanye West probably does not know that...

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