So I'm getting ready to batten down my hatches in preparation for Hurricane Dolly, so this week's Big Question is going to be short and sweet. Since I was running late today (Just in case you were wondering "I'm sorry I'm late, the firemen were washing their truck" does NOT count as an excused tardy) [...]...

Two weeks ago, Francesca asked readers in New York to please identify a big-girl store on Manhattan's Upper West Side which Francesca had passed by in a hurry. A reader named Sarah kindly identified the store as Rootchi, which has its website here. In perusing the Rootchi website, Francesca found that they carry the clothes of [...]...

Speaking of snappy comebacks, Francesca has received the following email from an editor at First: [W]e're doing a feature on body snark - the witty things women say if someone makes a rude comment about their body. One staffer had an example from her mom, who was approached by a kid cousin with the question, [...]...

My little brother, who is nearly perfect in every way (except for that time he showed up to our Grandparent's 60th Wedding Anniversary wearing a bifurcated goatee and –brace yourselves– rented vinyl  mock-spats)  has the most hatefully beautiful eyelashes in the history of the whole damn world and it makes me want to kick him [...]...

And Joy has released the next "Fat Rant" video! Look, listen, and learn: Ha! "No, but the night is young." Ha! Francesca loves the dresses which Joy is wearing at 0:42 and at 2:10. But most of all, she loves the model of gracious and educational behavior at 2:45. As an Apple, Francesca is often asked by small [...]...