Okay, so when I was in middle school I was friends with this girl. Let's call her Carol (hint: Carol is not her real name). Carol was one of those people who dreamed constantly of getting “discovered,” and being “famous.” You know the kind of person I mean—someone who is convinced that she is a  Read more »

Okay, so I know I said no new advice blogs for a while since Dr. Jaffe has been very busy lately writing the sequel to her soon-to-be-published book Bad Kitty, but we broke down and did one anyway because, let's face it: you begged. So here, without further ado, is the first official Advice Blog  Read more »

Well, I don't know what to say. I am as shocked as any of you at the apparent dissolution of Britney's marriage to Kevin Federline. I can't say I didn't expect it…but I thought they would last at least until Christmas. I was relieved when Brit called to tell me she had it all under  Read more »

After clarifying in my last blog how to tell when your “That's it. I'm out” moment has occurred in a romantic relationship, I was inundated by emails containing the following lament: “But how can I break up with a boyfriend when I can't even get a boyfriend in the first place???” Girls, girls, girls. I  Read more »

I did not have plans to elaborate further on the “That’s it/I’m out” moment in relationships mentioned in my last blog. However, the amount of mail I received on the subject indicates that it be re-addressed. Specifically, people want to me to define the exact moment when one should call it quits on the relationship,  Read more »

So it seems like a lot of celebrities announced that they’re getting divorced this week. I have to say I pretty much saw all of them coming except Kathy Griffin’s. I was truly shocked when I heard she and Matt were splitting up, because they seemed like such a funny, caring couple on her reality  Read more »

There's been a lot of mail lately. Here are some of the highlights: Apparently in my last entry, I wrote Ocean County instead of Orange County, which seemed to offend a lot of people. Obviously, I know OC stands for Orange County. I wasn't thinking…perhaps because I was busy working on the book I have  Read more »

Okay, so I grew up in a household without coasters. My mother may have OWNED coasters, but if so, I never saw any, and she certainly never made us use them. A current member of my household (hint: it is not Henrietta), on the other hand, is a coaster owner. AND user. Now, I am  Read more »

Well, I made it back home after my long, looooong book tour. I am still coughing—hacking up a lung is more like it—and I seriously have like 40 hours of TV shows to catch up with on my TiVo, not to mention about four feet of mail to get through. Not that TiVo is more  Read more »

Okay. So we here at the Meg Cabot blog have been inundated with requests for advice. And most of those requests ask for advice about—you guessed it—crushes. I would like to mention something I read this weekend in a book called The Full Cupboard of Life, by Alexander McCall Smith (from the No. 1 Ladies  Read more »