refuse to give up my obsession

In 2018, after years of occasional on-camera and radio commentary, I began hosting and producing podcasts for EW as part of my work to develop our digital audio programming. EW O...

http://www.shananaomi.com/2020/02/03/podcasts/

In ‘The Americans’ Series Finale, Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys Finally Get Their Happy Ending — Kind Of | ETonline.com, May 2018 I almost never find—or make—the time to write for my ow...

http://www.shananaomi.com/2018/06/12/the-americans-gets-a-happy-ending-kind-of/

There’s a scene in the film Say Anything where Lloyd (John Cusack) comes over to Diane’s house (Ione Skye) for what will emerge as a fairly high-stakes dinner with her father (John Mahoney) a...

http://www.shananaomi.com/2018/04/14/look-it-up/

The Disruptor: Adam Rippon on His Goals After Olympic Figure Skating | Rolling Stone  April 2018 I spent the day with the Olympics’ breakout sweetheart star, talking politics, his lack of sham...

http://www.shananaomi.com/2018/03/29/the-disruptor-adam-rippon-on-his-goals-after/

I had such good intentions. I made it one week into 2018 sticking to my promise that I’d regularly write something, somewhere that at least some other people could read it. Then the flu was a p...

http://www.shananaomi.com/2018/03/18/bet-you-rue-the-day-you-kissed-a-writer-in-the-dark/

The First Lady’s First Lady | Out Magazine April 2018 Amy Bloom’s new novel, White Houses, reunites Eleanor Roosevelt with her longtime love, journalist Lorena Hickok, with a sweet, sincere ...

http://www.shananaomi.com/2018/02/16/the-first-ladys-first-lady-out-magazine-april/

I told myself in 2018 I was going to write, somewhere, about something personal every week. Here goes. This wasn’t the easiest re-entry, though I hadn’t expected it to be. January is awards s...

http://www.shananaomi.com/2018/01/07/call-2018-by-its-name/

(Or: the year in music and learning to let go) I am not the praying kind. Modern Jews are rarely raised to be, or not in the way so widely or popularly portrayed, and in my house it was never par...

http://www.shananaomi.com/2017/12/30/three-prayers-for-2017/

My friend and colleague Jason writes a weekly meditative Medium post that I find 100 percent worth reading and reflecting on. One line from this Sunday’s missive gave me that guttural yesssssss...

http://www.shananaomi.com/2017/12/22/back-to-the-future-self/

Tomorrow I will go to work. Sometimes I do, sometimes I don’t. Tomorrow I will. I’ll do my best to avoid the TVs playing CNN throughout the office, though it’s possible there will be so muc...

http://www.shananaomi.com/2017/12/22/meet-little-miss-end-of-the-world/