O, The Oprah Magazine articles from November 2007

O, The Oprah Magazine archives from November 2007

Leading ladies.(letters)(Letter to the editor)
November 1, 2007... The September issue has to be one of the best I've ever read--and I've been reading O since the beginning. Your profile on Elizabeth Edwards ["I'm Really Scared, but I'm Absolutely Ready for This," by Barry Yeoman] was especially wonderful. As...

Loving, losing, and Learning.(letters)(Letter to the editor)
November 1, 2007... I just finished "The Afterlife," Peter Trachtenberg's article about Sally Goodrich and how she dealt with the trauma of losing her son on September 11. Trachtenberg did an excellent job of capturing Goodrich's tremendous intelligence and...

Green peace.(letters)(Letter to the editor)
November 1, 2007... I agree with Michael Cunningham's sentiment in September's "A Million Ways to Save the World" that we should all try to live as "green" as possible, but I disagree with his advice on how to do it. I don't think that when we see people getting...

A cap on caring?(letters)(Letter to the editor)
November 1, 2007... "Why We Don't Care About Darfur" [by Thea Singer, September] highlights an excellent point: that while we'll gladly donate to individual people, in whose lives we can envision making a palpable difference, we're more reticent when it comes to...

Through the pages.(letters)(Letter to the editor)
November 1, 2007... I loved Andrea Lee's article about reading Mark Twain's classic Tom Sawyer with her son ["A River Flows Through Us," September]. I truly believe that books are the most effective tools we have in educating our children. I'm in the middle of the...

Woman we love.(letters)(Letter to the editor)
November 1, 2007... I was so happy to see "Nikki Giovanni's Aha! Moment" in the September issue. I grew up reading her books, and they helped me become the person I am today. I still see her as a strong role model; I always will. Thank you for featuring her. ...

Family ties.(letters)(Letter to the editor)
November 1, 2007... While I nearly always find Dr. Phil's advice very sage, I was dismayed by his comment to the 42-year-old adoptee in the September issue: "It's not uncommon for parents to have a hard time forming the same bond with adopted children as they do...

Faith lift.(letters)(Letter to the editor)
November 1, 2007... Thank you for "Oprah Talks to Fantasia" [September]. This young lady inspires me (I'm old enough to be her mom) and reminds me that all things are possible if you only believe. Paula Bonaparte DORAVILLE, GEORGIA

Amazing Gracie.(letters)(Letter to the editor)
November 1, 2007... I was saddened to read of Oprah's loss in August's "What I Know for Sure." I know how devastating the death of a pet can be. But a quote of hers put a silver lining on the cloud that I've been carrying with me for some time. Oprah wrote, "What...

An affair to forget.(letters)(Letter to the editor)
November 1, 2007... "Snap! Could a Man Drive You Crazy?" [by Sarah Bird, August] struck a chord with me--but I would have snapped on the other woman, not on my partner. I confided my suspicions about my husband's infidelity to my "friend" for months, only to find...

'Do the right thing.(letters)(Letter to the editor)
November 1, 2007... Please give Suzan Colon my heartfelt gratitude. Her August article, "The Right Cut," showed me clearly that, at 43 years of age, it was finally time to make peace with my hair. After several weeks of lingering indecisiveness, I went to my...

The pleasure is ours.(letters)(Letter to the editor)
November 1, 2007... Finally a mainstream article that speaks to someone like me--a woman who enjoys porn! As Violet Blue explained in "Eyes Wide Open" {July}, not all porn is bad--there are many varieties, and despite popular belief, not all its stars are...

Here we go!(Cover story)
November 1, 2007... You know that old joke about the guy who lives to be 104? The punch line goes something like "If I knew I was gonna get this old, I'd have taken much better care of myself." Well, guess what? We actually are living longer, and the time to start...

Wait! Stop! It's all too much! Appointments! Dishes! E-mails! Hang on, my cell phone's ringing! S.O.S.! No wonder we stumble around all day, dazed and confused. Martha Beck shows you how to unclutter, unclog, and keep your head above water.(advice, etc.)
November 1, 2007... SONYA OPENS HER CALENDAR TO schedule a meeting. The little book bristles with appointments. Distracted, she begins to fret about the thousand things she should do right away, then closes the calendar--without adding the new meeting. ...

Dr. Phil: "your husband obviously has no respect for you or your marriage"; Phillip C. McGraw, PhD, on standing up to a wandering spouse ... getting involved with a much older man ... and dealing with your husband's former in-laws.(advice, etc.)
November 1, 2007... Q My husband and I have been married for nine years. He's got many female friends and, over the years, some of these relationships have crossed the line. A while back, he kissed a friend, and two years ago--after I'd just had a baby--I learned...

Suze Orman: "never think that you need to buy someone's affection"; Getting scammed by a charming con man ... helping your daughter buy her first home ... and confronting a stingy boyfriend.(advice, etc.)
November 1, 2007... Q I'm a 40-year-old single woman. A few weeks ago, I met a man I thought was amazing, as did my friends. He and I began dating and took a trip together. After we got home, I stopped hearing from him. Shortly thereafter, I discovered that he had...

A million ways to save the world.(advice, etc.)
November 1, 2007... Award-winning playwright EVE ENSLER resumes her monthly mission: to canvass the best brains around the globe for their earth-fixing ideas. So that by April 2008, the tenth anniversary of V-Day--the movement to end violence against women and...

Scary work scenario #3: the uh-oh feeling; A boss asks you to do something iffy. You see a colleague doing something that runs counter to everything you believe in. What's your best move? Suzy Welch has some advice for the morally befuddled.(advice, etc.)
November 1, 2007... HERE'S A TRICKY ONE FOR YOU: Imagine that one day, you start to suspect that a woman you work with, the one with the new baby and the newly unemployed husband, is padding her expense account. What would you do? Report her to HR? Admonish her...

Celine Dion's aha! moment: her husband was her rock, her manager, her behind-the-scenes support system. Then came a stunning role reversal, and the singer discovered a voice (and an identity) she didn't know existed.(advice, etc.)
November 1, 2007... I AM THE YOUNGEST OF 14 CHILDREN IN A CLOSE-knit family, so I had lots of people watching out for me and giving me loving support from a very early age. A brother or sister was always there to take me to school or help me with my homework. My...

What do I do now? Strangers going ballistic, baggage compartment etiquette--and when is it ever bring-your-germs-to-work day? Jancee Dunn quizzes the experts.(advice, etc.)
November 1, 2007... Q: You and your mother are chatting as you walk through a store. You accidentally bump the man next to you. You apologize, but he starts swearing and yelling. How do you handle a stranger who goes ballistic? [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] *...

How to get what you want from anyone (and we mean that in the nicest possible way); She'd been a roaring success in her old job but was running into walls in her new one. Why wouldn't her colleagues respond to her e-mails? Answer: she wasn't speaking their language. Enter a laserlike coach with a talking cure that's transformed her life--on and off the job.(advice, etc.)
November 1, 2007... YOU KNOW THAT FEELING YOU GET when you say something you weren't supposed to say and it comes out a little louder than you anticipated? It's a naked moment, and there's nothing you can do to cover up. You goofed, everybody heard, and how you...

The O list: a few things we think are just great.
November 1, 2007... The Cheese Stands Alone We could tell you how the makers of this cheese create an exquisite texture and rich flavor using milk from their own herd of Holsteins, or how the wheels of their cheese are turned by hand and aged for 18 months....

Look what we found!(style)
November 1, 2007... Stud Power MORE PARK AVENUE than punk rock, this season's civilized studs add cool embellishment and texture to accessories. Use judiciously: One touch gives a chic little edge; more leads to biker-chick overkill. 1. Riveting clutch has a...

Rachel Roy: going from office to oh-my.(DESIGNER CLOSE-UP)
November 1, 2007... Most of us have to be quick-change artists and run nonstop from work to evenings out. This elegant designer talks about stocking her closet with things that make the transition chic and easy. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "With a statement...

Tory Burch: daring to dress boldly.(DESIGNER CLOSE-UP)
November 1, 2007... This queen of cool sportswear believes in bold jewelry and tops in luscious colors and emphatic patterns, especially when they're backed by classic pants and shoes. It's a happy concept for any age, any body type. Tory Burch wears one of...

Kai Milla: packing the right stuff.(DESIGNER CLOSE-UP)
November 1, 2007... This designer's travel philosophy incorporates stylish roll-and-go clothes and sleek accessories that work anywhere--plus an aromatherapeutic teddy to keep her children calm and happy. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "I have one Treo for the...

Adam says: O's creative director, Adam Glassman, tells you what your best friends won't.(style report)
November 1, 2007... Q AS A PLUS-SIZE WOMAN, WHAT DO I ABSOLUTELY NEED IN MY CLOSET? 1. LINGERIE that lifts, smooths, and supports, including shapewear pieces and a properly fitted bra. You've got to get dressed from the inside out. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]...

Editors' choice: what our fashion team is crazy about this month.(style report)
November 1, 2007... Fashion Finder Couturelab.com is an elegant source of inspiration for the holiday gift hunt. Browsing the new membership-only site, with its seasonless offerings from an upscale international group of artisans and designers--such as L'Wren...

Great buys under $100!(style)
November 1, 2007... The best of the season for crazy low prices. $25 Autumnal plaid wool, cap-sleeved dress with matching belt, Forever 21; forever21.com. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] $99 Suede menswear-style lace-up, Nine West; ninewest.com. ...

Look what we found! A gorgeous, fashionable fragrance, a trio of ultra-pampering bath oils, a promising new skin cream, and more ... Here's what O's beauty editors--Valerie Monroe and Jessica Matlin--fell in love with this month.(style beauty)
November 1, 2007... * Fresh and green and intriguingly beautiful, this Prada fragrance, Infusion D'Iris ($210 for 13.5 ounces plus a 30-milliliter portable splash flask and funnel), comes in a bottle so wickedly elegant, we want to display it on our mantel--maybe...

Ask Val: you've got questions? Our beauty director, Valerie Monroe, has answers.(style beauty)
November 1, 2007... Q Why is the left side of my face more wrinkled than the right side? Ha! This one's easy, I thought: You probably sleep with the left side of your face smushed into the pillow. But Arthur W. Perry, MD, clinical associate professor at the...

Good timing; We're all wound up about these chic new timepieces: whether you're eating, sleeping, working, or flying off into the wild blue yonder, they'll ensure that your schedule is in good hands.(style home)
November 1, 2007... BEDTIME Sweet dreams are your respite from the day's stress--so a bedside clock should be discreetly elegant yet spirited enough to rouse you gently and thoroughly when morning comes. 1. An old-fashioned bell ringer is encased in a block...

A spoonful of perfect: for her mother, a bowl of fragrant, steaming rice, meticulously prepared every day, was a ritual, a religion, a reminder of where she'd come from, an expression of love for her family. Nora Okja Keller discovers the importance of going with the grain--and the technique of getting it right every time.(style food)
November 1, 2007... WHEN I GOT MARRIED A DECADE ago, my mother presented me with a rice cooker. Squat and beige, it wasn't the prettiest appliance, but it had a button that kept the cooked rice warm. My mother sighed with satisfaction. "Now your family will always...

Eater's digest: what to do with the rest of the bird; Blame it on L-tryptophan: you're just too wiped out the day after Thanksgiving to come up with a creative use for your turkey leftovers. So this year, we've done the thinking for you. Here are three superb sandwiches, each made with one of our new favorite condiments.(style food)
November 1, 2007... Smokra Cubano Club [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Rick's Picks Smokra pickles are lightly spicy, warmly smoky, and so crisp and delicious, they'll convert even people who swear they can't stand okra (like me). 1 large English muffin or...

Exercise: the least you can do (would you believe ten minutes?).(bodywise)
November 1, 2007... IMAGINE IF exercising ten minutes a day were enough to improve your health, cheer you up, and help you maintain a steady weight. Well, it is, even though most experts stubbornly insist that you need 30 to 60 minutes daily to see results. The...

Your Rx: what your doctor won't tell you; "Take with meals"? "Avoid alcohol"? Here's what those instructions really mean.(bodywise)
November 1, 2007... MEDICINES COME WITH SEEMINGLY simple directives like "Take on empty stomach." You might assume that means: Swallow the pill just before a meal. You'd be mistaken. If you eat within an hour, your body may not fully absorb the medication. After a...

Preventing Holidaze: hangover helpers; Avoid day-after regrets--not to mention pain--with a little advance planning.(bodywise)
November 1, 2007... IF YOU'RE WEARING a lamp shade, it's too late: Three drinks can be enough to induce pain and suffering in the A.M. Don't think you can bail yourself out with those hangover-cure concoctions for sale on the Internet. "There's no cure, only...

Moisturize your eyes: computers, medications, aging--each can dry out your peepers, and the consequences can be serious.(bodywise)
November 1, 2007... WHETHER IT'S FROM BIRTH CONTROL PILLS, sleeping drugs, long hours in front of computer screens, or aging, more and more people are complaining of dry eyes. Some 3.2 million American women over age 50 struggle with the problem. Fewer tears may...

Staying fit on the road: run--don't walk--to these web sites for some home-away-from-home exercise time.(bodywise)(Website overview)
November 1, 2007... Scheduling exercise sessions while traveling can be tough, but finding where to do them is easy. These Web sites can help you locate pools, trails, and tennis courts all over the globe, and the sites are free (unlike those in-flight snacks)....

The way to eat: David L. Katz, MD, sorts out the healthy, the harmful, and the hype.(bodywise)
November 1, 2007... Q| I use almonds, walnuts, pecans, and pine nuts in salads, granola, and snacks. Do nuts absorb pesticides in significant amounts? Is it important to buy organic nuts? --ANN CHITTY City withheld [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] It's...

You! Staying Young! In the new book that every woman over 29 will want to devour this fall, Drs. Mehmet Oz and Michael Roizen take all the latest antiaging research and come up with a comprehensive plan that will actually reset your body clock. Here, their two-week program that could--we're not kidding--change the rest of your life.(bodywise)
November 1, 2007... Most of us imagine ourselves going happily through life, until one day we start to age, and the symptoms domino right before our cataract-clouded eyes. Our bones creak, our backs hurt, we space on the names of the neighbors. Soon we're eating...

What's your sign? (No, seriously): turns out astrology may not be such a flaky concept after all.(mindwise)
November 1, 2007... ARE YOU A supposedly sensible woman who knows not only your sun sign but whether you were born on the cusp? Have you based dating searches on whether you two are a good astrological match? Have you ever, upon learning a new friend's birthday,...

Getting through a hard time: when the going gets tough, here are ways to make it go easier.(mindwise)
November 1, 2007... "CAUSE THERE'LL be hard times... who knows better than I?" Ray Charles sang, and don't we all know it. Difficulties are a fact of life, and it isn't easy to see how to get through them while you're singing the blues. But there are some...

The sense of being slighted.(mindwise)
November 1, 2007... LIFE IS UNFAIR. Or so you think when the world seems to be against you. But how you respond to unjust treatment can make all the difference: The wrong attitude can put a chip on your shoulder that may chip away at your health. Driven,...

Face book.(reading room)
November 1, 2007... GRANTED, WE'RE A LITTLE BIASED: We think the human face is one of the loveliest sights on earth. So what could be better than 500 faces of every stripe, etched with experience or spanking-new, exuberant, distracted, princely, pouty, or serene?...

Wrestling with freedom: Ha Jin's simple, beautiful new novel chronicles the longing, uncertainty, and everyday oddness of immigrant life.(reading room)
November 1, 2007... NAN WU, the main character in Ha Jin's novel A Free Life (Pantheon), is a Chinese immigrant with a wife and son who has made good on the American Dream but who wishes he were a poet instead. He is intensely literary, and late in the book,...

Alice Sebold cuts straight to the Bone.(reading room)
November 1, 2007... AS READERS OF her best-selling novel, The Lovely Bones, know, Alice Sebold has an uncanny knack for imaginatively entering the bleakest of situations and finding a kind of normalcy there. Her latest, The Almost Moon (Little, Brown), is no...

Sinners and losers: a master of the short story carves out gemlike tales of heat, desire, regret, nostalgia.(reading room)
November 1, 2007... THE SHORT STORY as a form is difficult to master and powerful in effect--like a well-strung bow. William Trevor, who has been at it for many decades, is unquestionably a master, one of three or four writing in English in the last century (V.S....

The sisterhood: those Mitford girls! Who didn't they know? What didn't they do? And when did they find time to write all those letters?(reading room)
November 1, 2007... "WOULDN'T IT BE DREAD," wrote the Duchess of Devonshire, "if one had (a) no sisters (b) sisters who didn't write." As it was, the former Deborah Mitford had five scribbling siblings--including Jessica (The American Way of Death) and Nancy (Love...

O wows.(reading room)
November 1, 2007... O'S GUIDE TO LIFE: The Best of O, The Oprah Magazine (Oxmoor House) is filled with our choicest, most irresistible articles from the past two years, on everything from dieting smart to dreaming big, from taming your inner critic (down, girl) to...

Not like in the movies: a (literally) washed-up movie star, a 13-year-old beauty, and a cast of real characters sweep through a swashbuckling Caribbean epic.(reading room)
November 1, 2007... IMAGINE THAT YOU are a beautiful 13-year-old Jamaican girl. Imagine that movie star Errol Flynn washes up near your town in his schooner after a hurricane. This is a slightly older, fatter, and sadder Errol Flynn than in his Captain Blood prime...

The cancer conspiracies.(reading room)
November 1, 2007... IT'S WHAT THEY don't say that can kill you. Since the 1930s, scientists have known that what people ate, or breathed in, or simply had the misfortune to live or work around could make them sick to death. Yet to this day, vital research data is...

Dream girl: through a forest of fantasy, a lost twin finds her way home.(reading room)
November 1, 2007... IN VERONICA GONZALEZ'S lush and layered debut, Twin Time: or, How Death Befell Me (Semiotexte), a beautiful Mexican teenager flees Mexico City with a baker she hardly knows because he can make tiny mice out of chocolate and marzipan, and...

One more backlash: Susan Faludi's must-read new book argues that 9/11 not only fractured our political landscape but slammed American women.(reading room)
November 1, 2007... IN HER PROVOCATIVE new book, The Terror Dream (Metropolitan), Susan Faludi argues that the attack on the Twin Towers dealt an especially severe blow to American women. Beginning with the immediate aftermath of 9/11--when pundits not only...

A quartet of pure rapture.(BIBLIO)
November 1, 2007... * Posthumous second acts are tough. But Fire in the Blood (Knopf), a newly translated work by Irene Nemirovsky, who died in Auschwitz in 1942 and whose Suite Francaise was last year's literary revelation, is an almost perfect miniature, a tale...

Books that made a difference to Hugh Jackman; He's given away 100 copies of one book, restructured his production company because of another: The actor talks about the novels and memoirs that revved him up and pointed him toward his own path and passion.(reading room)
November 1, 2007... I HAVE TO TELL THIS STORY ABOUT one of the books on my list. As I got to the end of Muhammad Yunus's autobiography, Banker to the Poor, I was so captivated by this man that I wrote a letter to the address on the back cover, a P.O. box in...

Lisa Kogan tells all: do vacations exhaust you? Do you prefer the travel posters to the trip? Do you know how to say "easy on the heavy cream" in German? Our ever so lightly Xanaxed columnist achieves a winged victory ... of sorts.(connections)
November 1, 2007... HERE IS A BRIEF LIST OF THE PEOPLE who have served me well: Catherine de Medici, who at some point around 1533 came down heavily in favor of the fork, giving it some degree of social acceptance (without Cate, I'd be forced to treat spaghetti as...

The man who got away (thank goodness!): her father ran off when she was 12, leaving behind a wife, four children, 50 unmilked cows, and a trail of questions. Amy Dickinson, who grew up to write the unflappable advice column Ask Amy, gets to see what she's been missing.(connections)(Column)
November 1, 2007... MY FATHER CALLED ME one day last summer. "Um, it's your father," he said. "I shot a bear and now it looks like I've got to go to court." I replayed his message a few times. His voice is nasal and gravelly and full of flatness and diphthongs. I...

Live your best love life! Bored in bed? Intimidated by intimacy? Romance running on empty? Have no sexual fear ... Cindy Chupack is here!(connections)
November 1, 2007... Q If Carrie had trouble finding sex in the big city, imagine my trouble finding a man in Reno! The men I meet are washed-up high school Hall of Famers or your typical dog with nothing but sex on the brain. I'm in a rut. The right guy is out...

The O interview: Oprah talks to Jerry Seinfeld; He redefined TV comedy, and now an American cultural icon opens up about his stingingly funny new film, Bee Movie, his kids, his cars, his wife--guys: memorize what he learns from Oprah!--and his top three rules for living well.(Interview)
November 1, 2007... OVER A LATE-NIGHT CUP OF coffee at Manhattan's Westway Diner in 1988, comedians Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David had an idea: a sitcom based on the life of a New York stand-up comic. In July 1989, their brainstorm became The Seinfeld Chronicles,...

Colin Cowie's incredible thanksgiving feast.
November 1, 2007... Just when you think there's no way around the same old same old, along comes COLIN COWIE, Oprah's favorite event planner, with a turkey so juicy you'll swear it's a whole new bird; the nuttiest, crunchiest, most over-the-top stuffing ever...

The heart & mind of Michelle Obama: her husband calls her spectacular. Her gym friends call her a gladiator. Her mother calls her often (they're very close). She's driven, determined, and not easy to impress, but also warm, wry, and unpretentious. Holly Yeager meets the woman Barack Obama couldn't run without.
November 1, 2007... Of all the stories I've heard about Michelle Obama, the most telling might be one about her mother, 70-year-old Marian Robinson, a tall woman with impeccable posture, a vivid smile, and excruciatingly high personal standards. On the far side of...

Love at last: whether you're 35 or 75, it's never too late to fall madly (or gently and even sacredly) in love. Just ask actress Ellen Burstyn and a host of other women who found themselves in the heat of romance when they least expected it. Sara Davidson reports.
November 1, 2007... MY MOTHER MET THE LOVE OF HER LIFE WHEN SHE WAS 84. A widow for nine years, she spotted Harold Lapidus, a retired doctor, standing alone at a bridge club. She asked if he wanted to play, and they became inseparable. "He's a younger man,"...

For my son, in Iraq: as long as men have gone to war, mothers have wept for their sons. For poet Frances Richey, whose only child serves in Iraq, words are her only weapon against a near-unspeakable fear.
November 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Kill School That was the summer he rappelled down mountains on rope that from a distance...

I feel better about my neck.
November 1, 2007... Thanks to Nora Ephron, we know how obsessive we can be about gravity's wattling effects on our necks. But thanks to some very stylish experts, we also know that there are smart, subtle ways--no desperate measures, no major surgery--to flatter...

Breathing space.
November 1, 2007... LONGNOOK BEACH, CAPE COD, MASSACHUSETTS, 1983 Photograph by Joel Meyerowitz, courtesy of Edwynn Houk Gallery

The absolutely no-fail, no-nonsense guide to beautiful skin: because nobody should be using the same skincare stuff year after year (skin changes, as you've probably noticed)--and because new and vastly improved products are coming along all the time--here are the upgrades and updates you need to know about now.
November 1, 2007... For many of us, the way our skin looks in the morning dictates, like the weather, what kind of day we might have. We get out of bed, skip (or stagger) over to the mirror, and peer at our reflection as if we were peering out the window. What did...

To beat the unbeatable foe.
November 1, 2007... It hasn't been easy--or pretty. One of them has to inject herself in the stomach twice a day. The other came so close to dying that her father arranged--and paid for--her funeral. But Rae Lewis-Thornton and Sharon Lund, who were both infected...

Flat-out fabulous: you don't need stilettos to look sexy--the proof is in these sleek, sole-satisfying flats. Wear them with skinny pants or full skirts for the best proportion.(FASHION)
November 1, 2007... DOVE GRAY faux-patent leather flats look sleek under black or brown trousers. Payless, $20; payless.com. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] GENTEEL HOUNDSTOOTH with a touch of hardware looks polished at a low price. A.N.A. by JCPenney, $20;...

All-star skincare: have you found our no-fail, no-nonsense guide to beautiful skin (page 306)? Good! Now that you know what to do, here are 11 no-fail, no-nonsense products to start you on your way....(BEAUTY)
November 1, 2007... The salicylic acid in DDF Salicylic Wash ($32) exfoliates the skin (opening up clogged pores) and minimizes oil (preventing new breakouts). It can be drying, so limit use to once a day or every other day if it's too harsh. Studies show that...

Colin Cowie's incredible thanksgiving feast: give thanks with Colin's pureed pumpkin-apple soup, braised fennel, crispy potatoes, uber-nutty stuffing, four-star turkey ... (for story, see page 280).(THE RECIPES)
November 1, 2007... Southern Skillet Cornbread [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] 8 Tbsp. (1 stick) unsalted butter, plus 1 Tbsp. set aside 1 1/2 cups yellow cornmeal 1 cup all-purpose flour 1/3 cup sugar 1 Tbsp. baking powder 3/4 tsp. salt 1 1/2 cups milk...

Shop guide (all prices are approximate).
November 1, 2007... COVER Dress, Naeem Khan, $4,330, select Saks Fifth Avenue stores; 877-612-7257. Coat, Simply Vera Vera Wang, $128; kohls.com. Earrings, Caroline Dadlani; 305-672-3360; carolinedadlani.com. Ring, Pomellato, $4,900; 212-879-2118. TABLE OF...

What I know for sure.
November 1, 2007... TWENTY-TWO YEARS AFTER doing my first show, I'm still surprised by how fragile we are when it comes to the line between being loved, accepted, wanted, appreciated--or not. And how just being able to talk about it all puts healing within our...