Do Women Really Want to Be Rescued?

Still from Sex and the City © HBO. Image via Vogue México.

Life & Love · The Lori Diaries

I've been rewatching Sex and the City, and I've arrived at an age that makes the whole experience unexpectedly amusing. I'm 32 now. Carrie, Miranda and Charlotte were around my age when the series began. Samantha was a little ahead of them, in years and in just about everything else. I used to watch these women as though they had reached some distant stage of adulthood where you owned good shoes, knew exactly who you were and had developed a reasonable understanding of men. Watching them now, I realise they had the shoes. The rest was very much a work in progress.

Under the Tuscan Sun: Maybe the Happy Ending Was Never the Man

Screen & Sound · The Lori Diaries

I went on Netflix looking for a film. Preferably something pretty, comforting, and unlikely to make me question my entire approach to life. Tuscany seemed like a safe choice.

Beyond the Post: What Working in Digital Marketing Has Taught Me

Everything Else · The Lori Diaries

I used to think being good at digital marketing meant coming up with a nice idea, designing something that looked good, writing a caption, and making sure it went out on time. All important things, of course. But the longer I work in marketing, the more I realise that publishing the post is often the smallest visible part of the job. There is everything that happens before it, everything that happens after it, and a surprising amount of time spent trying to understand why something that made perfect sense in my head isn't working quite the way I imagined.