Interview with Allison Hope Weiner, writer and internet talk show host

by Caren April 17, 2013

Each week, we post short interviews with interesting people about their thoughts and feelings on women and drinking. There is such a wide array of perspectives about this topic, and we are excited to gain insight into as many as possible and to share them with you. Allison Hope Weiner was a Century City entertainment [...]

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Hotel Minibars: Love Them or Dread Them?

by Leah April 10, 2013

Did you know that hotel minibars—which have been a prominent fixture in hotels since the mid 70s–are an endangered species? I hadn’t noticed, but then I recently came across this elegy for the minibar in the Atlantic magazine. Apparently, big hotel chains such as Marriotts, Hiltons and Hyatts are phasing out refrigerated minibars. When I [...]

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Interview with Rachelle Bergstein, author of “Women From the Ankle Down: The Story of Shoes and How They Define Us”

by Caren April 3, 2013

Each week, we post short interviews with interesting people about their thoughts and feelings on women and drinking. There is such a wide array of perspectives about this topic, and we are excited to gain insight into as many as possible and to share them with you. Rachelle Bergstein is a writer and editor whose [...]

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A Note to Our Readers

by Caren March 29, 2013

To our readers: After nearly four years of blogging here at Drinking Diaries, we have decided to continue with alternative projects–Caren with her feature and travel writing; Leah with her young adult fiction writing. We will continue to post here once per week, on Wednesdays, for who knows how long. Needless to say, there is [...]

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AA Asana

by guest March 27, 2013

By Kate Robinson In 19 days I will have a year sober. In 19 days it will be one year since I was lying on the couch at 4:30 in the afternoon with the two bottles of wine I would mix with diet Ginger Ale and vodka until I would gently pass out around six [...]

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