Reclaiming "Last Christmas"
This image is a beautifully gift-wrapped lie. This one is a more painfully accurate representation of the song yelled about below. Hi, friends. It’s freezing...
Taking a break from all your worries
Dames Nationals, Please Get Out Your Needlessly Elaborate Planners. We have a Christmas Witch Party to announce! The ONLY way to make margaritas, really.By...
Molly Weasley, Acoustic Guitar Crimes, and Additional Ephemera
HI DAMES NATION!Want to know what made us cry this week?*YOU'RE IN LUCK! Because I (Dame Margaret) just spontaneously decided to open this week's email with...
Friendships and Funny in a Time of Fear
Hi, everyone! We are Amy & Maurene—both young adult authors who write contemporary stories about teenagers who we find funny. We were so thrilled to put this...
Bossy Take: This National Nightmare
Hi, Dames Nationals.We aren’t doing great. Our present mental state, Part 1 Part 2. Part 3. We did not have it in us to write a full issue this week, but we...
Only Children, Anne Tryhardaway, and Shade Street Kitchen
Dames Nation, we know some of you are going to read this opening and think “Ugh, Dame Margaret is talking about her personal hero John HodgmanAGAIN?...
Hillary Clinton and Hardworking Imperfection
Written about the 2016 U.S. election, tragically still relevant to the 2020 U.S. Election :(
Sports for Non-Sportsers, Cephalopods, & Tinglers for All
Salutations, Dames Nationals!! Not sure about your wandwork there, Richard, but our hearts sure are levitating.As those of you in the United States are...
Soup Shibboleths & Synergy
Hello Dames and Damettes! We are Maris and Rachel, friends and internet book nerds who look sort of alike but not as alike as a lot of people seem to think....
Terrible Twos!
016 just keeps on 2016ing, doesn’t it?We are on record wishing to cancel it as early as THE SECOND WEEK OF JANUARY, and we cannot say we’ve warmed to it much...
#Hamildames Part Deux: Electric Tweetaloo
Dames Nation! Gather ‘round the glowing image-box! It’s time for another live-tweet! This time, we bring you, via the magic of American Public Broadcasting,...
Serial Monogamists of Making Stuff
Dames Nation! We’re Katrina and Jess, Serial Monogamists of Making Stuff. Today, we want to boss the internet about what that means. We boss each other...
Look Around, Look Around, At How Lucky You Are To Have Dames Right Now
Dames Nation, Did You KNOW....That in addition to being the most wonderful time of the year for your Dames, who love nothing more than to throw a cozy scarf...
Gather Round The GBBO Hot Takes Chafing Dish
We have some delicious (if terribly sad) thoughts for you When the news came this week that The Great British Bake-Off was leaving its ancestral home at the...
Good As Hell Tween Edition
Welcome to Freshtown, Dames Nation. Your mayor would like to introduce herself. You know Your Dames love a quality self-esteem jam, and we bless, from the...
Oy, enough already with the poodles!
Gather Round The GBBO Hot Takes Chafing Dish, Dames Nation! We have some delicious (if terribly sad) thoughts for you When the news came this week that The...
Forever and Always Committed to Fetch and Fluff
Hiiiiiii again frieeeeendsssssssss!! We, your Dames, are finally back, after a highly restorative and-- in Dame M’s case-- pretty live-changing two-week...
Lindsay Lohan moves through the Chateau Marmont
Dames on dames on glamorous dames on dames, as far as the eye can see! Julia really wants these glasses. Also the hot dog. Hi! We are Julia and Adam, and the...
Croquembouche Monsieur
Well, Dames Nation, you DO have us pegged, Because that was the exact face we made while reading Sarah Gailey's exquisite piece of #Damesbait, "In Defense of...
Phanatical Philadelphia, Phantom Toolbooths, & Praise of Dandies
ames Nation. Are you wondering WHY the Philly Phanatic is dancing today?EASY! It’s because he’s SO EXCITED that Dame Margaret is coming to The Philadelphia...