In a previous life I wrote a blog called THE ACTOR’S DIET and Katie Horwitch, who was still in college at the time, was one of my first virtual friends. Back then we wrote about our body and food struggles on blogger and Wordpress, when the “wellness industry” was still an embryo. We’ve been IRL buddies for almost two decdes now, and caught up for a 2.5 hour coffee date while she was in town. I’m just so grateful to still have people in my life who have traveled these social media roads alongside me — the joys and headaches — before social media even existed. Who truly understand how virality, stats, followers, views, and algorithms were never why we shared online in the first place. And here we are, still writing about body image and food in book forms. Katie’s debut WANT YOUR SELF can be found everywhere, and my first children’s book SOUP DUMPLINGS DON’T EAT CHEESE will be out this fall via Slant'd! Also, on the way out I spied another foodie friend from that era — Clarissa Wei — her gorgeous new soy sauce was on the shelves!