A reader who wants to like the book Kabul Beauty School can’t get her head around the author’s decision to work in a dangerous land, away from her children.
About Ali Dubrow
Ali is a 24-year-old New Yorker currently residing in Los Angeles. She walked into college thinking, "Hey! I'm gonna be a Broadway actress, rainbows and puppies!" Then, after a couple years, realizing she could no longer fathom the idea of 24/7 rejection she instead chose an equally unstable career, writing.
Nowadays Ali can be found freaking out over the price of LA apartment living, biting her nails to restrain from buying yet another pair of shoes, or spooning Molly and Emma (those are her dogs, by the way). Her current light at the end of the tunnel is an upcoming trip to Europe (her first time!) which, after being all Jewish and traveling to Israel back in December, became an absolute necessity.
Ali has done various freelancing gigs and currently writes for Examiner and occasionally for Stage Of Life. You can read about her oh-so-very exciting life (sarcasm intended) at her blog, The Way I See It.
Going Up? Not Anytime Soon
A chronically broken down elevator causes Ali to philosophize about the saying “we’re only human”.
Relationships: Let’s Make a Deal (Breaker)
Ali goes to work on a TV show about relationship deal breakers and decides to share a few of her own.
Cats Playing Patty Cake: Almost Human?
One thing about the internet, when you’re bored there are always lots of animals who seem human to entertain you, like these cats playing patty cake. Yes, really.
Hollywood Marriage: I Do (Not Think This Will Last)
Ever since I started reading Us Weekly (and I honor its title by religiously reading it weekly), I’ve been under the impression that there had to be some sort of conspiracy theory to explain why nearly every single Hollywood couple divorces.
And Here’s To You, Mrs. Rav4
When a car dies, it’s not like we should mourn, right? As Ali discovers, cars acquire personalities. We grow to like (or love them) and often they are there for the most important moments of our lives.
The Unemployment Files
Who knew there was so much to be learned from unemployment? When Ali leaves her day job she discovers Jewish guilt, what happens at Starbucks during the day and why TiVo isn’t essential.
Mr. Perfect, My Gut and Why Online Dating Isn’t Just For Ladies With Bad Perms
I never thought I’d be the online dating type. The online dating type, to me at least, being that 45-year-old woman with a really bad perm, a crap load of cats and a weakness for soaps who sighed into her coffee every morning wondering what exactly it was about her that kept men away.
My Dutch Cultural Experience
On day one of my two-week, eight-country European tour, when our tour guide brought up attending a sex show that night in Amsterdam, I jumped on it (pun intended, sure).
On Being Alone
A video called “How to Be Alone” inspires Ali Dubrow to reflect on the joys of spending quality time with yourself.