Karen Karbo

"Karen Karbo is a very funny writer - from near slapstick to wry wit. Amazing" --The New York Times

Essays, Articles & Stories
 

Time For 'Stacy's Mom' to Hang Up Her Thong?

Ceding the spotlight to my teenage daughter.


The Accidental Breadwinner

Bringing home the bacon and cooking it


This Med’s For You

If we ruled the pharmaceutical world, there’d be a pill to prevent us from dating men like our ex-husbands


Miles of Isles

The fantasy dive-trip cocktail -- take 1,190 coral outposts in the Indian Ocean, add one deluxe catamaran, one dive dhoni, a large splash of sapphire-blue water, and stir.


Longevity or Dessert

Is it worth living to 90 if it means never eating another piece of pie?


Goodbye, Moon

A childrens' classic goes PC


We Obsess, Therefore We Buy

Parenting manuals mutilply along with parental insecurites


Change is a Circus

Why trapeze flying is good for business