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Danielle Crittenden is a Washington-based author and journalist. She is the Managing Blog Editor of Huffington Post Canada.

How it Felt on 9/11

Danielle Crittenden wrote on September 11th, 2011 at 12:00 am

On the morning of 9/11, I was living in Washington, D.C. with my husband, David Frum, then a speechwriter for President George W. Bush. I was six months pregnant with our third child, Beatrice (now nine), and at home with my son, Nathaniel, then seven, who had feigned a stomach ache.
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Rob Lowe: Talking ’Bout My Generation

Danielle Crittenden wrote on August 5th, 2011 at 6:05 pm

I am a keen consumer of gossip magazines, the trashier and more lurid the better, but I don’t usually bother with celebrity memoirs. Too many of them fall into over-familiar categories: “I Rose, I Flamed Out, Now I’m Back”; “Dropping Names Nobody Remembers”; or the most worthless of them all, “So-and-So’s Guide to Losing Weight/Getting   more

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Have Prom Proposals Gone Too Far?

Tessa Berenson wrote on May 27th, 2011 at 6:00 pm

While a simple “Will you go to prom with me?” may have sufficed in the past, girls today expect an unprecedented level of theater, deception, and surprise.  more

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Discovered: Strauss-Kahn’s TripAdvisor Review of New York Sofitel

Danielle Crittenden wrote on May 17th, 2011 at 4:53 pm

Former IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn might have second thoughts about the New York City Sofitel after his most recent stay.  more

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A Conservative Case for Farmers’ Markets

Danielle Crittenden wrote on March 11th, 2011 at 6:24 pm

So much of what we celebrate today as the “farm-to-table” movement is really just a modern re-imagining, or re-invention, of a less industrialized time.  more

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Let Them Eat Twinkies

Danielle Crittenden wrote on November 28th, 2010 at 11:27 pm

It’s bad enough Obama is nationalizing our healthcare, but now according to the latest paranoid fantasy on the right: he’s going to start telling you what to eat too.  more

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O’Donnell’s “Hook-Up”: Gawker’s in the Wrong

Danielle Crittenden wrote on October 28th, 2010 at 3:39 pm

It’s a sorry moment in political journalism when we must look towards the National Enquirer as a standard-bearer in reporting ethics.  more

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Confessions of a Terrorist Profiler

Danielle Crittenden wrote on October 22nd, 2010 at 6:05 pm

Juan Williams’ firing over remarks about Muslim airline passengers may have the perverse effect of worsening airline security.  more

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Exclusive: Bristol & Levi’s Evite Invitation!

Danielle Crittenden wrote on July 14th, 2010 at 3:16 pm

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Taking the Oath of Allegiance

Danielle Crittenden wrote on July 4th, 2010 at 10:37 am

I expected my swearing in ceremony to be a bureaucratic rubber-stamping of citizenship papers. But for all my patriotism, I had underestimated my new country.  more

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Sarah Palin’s Regional Tour

Danielle Crittenden wrote on April 17th, 2010 at 9:16 pm

It’s useful to glimpse celebrities doing the regional circuit: Away from the flattering lights of Broadway or Hollywood, you see what kind of performer they are. I was thinking this as I watched Sarah Palin “perform” Thursday in Hamilton, Ontario.  more

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A Message From Mrs. Frum

Danielle Crittenden wrote on March 26th, 2010 at 12:38 pm

I’ve been married to David Frum for nearly 22 years. I wouldn’t have thought it possible to admire David more than I already do.  more

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Capital Snow Diaries IV: The End Is Nigh

Danielle Crittenden wrote on February 17th, 2010 at 6:02 pm

So the Third Wave of snow everyone was predicting didn’t happen, the temperature has hovered for several days above freezing and, as you would expect, the capital is a total mess.  more

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Snow Diaries III: “Safeway Is Decimated!”

Danielle Crittenden wrote on February 13th, 2010 at 10:16 am

By the time Snowmageddon II hit, just four days after the first, the unusual good cheer and neighborliness of our-capital-under-siege had melted away–and its usual nasty temperament reasserted itself, with extra viciousness.  more

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Capital Snow Diaries II: Snowplow Politics

Danielle Crittenden wrote on February 12th, 2010 at 12:43 pm

Washingtonians of certain zip codes and official levels are not accustomed to doing their yard work themselves. On spring and fall days I’ve watched crews swoop through the neighborhood, and wondered idly if the amnesty-for-illegals sentiment prevalent in the Capital stemmed in part from a congressman’s desire not to mow his own lawn. But Snowmageddon defeated even the illegals.  more

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Capital Snow Diaries: Longer Than Healthcare Debate

Danielle Crittenden wrote on February 11th, 2010 at 9:27 am

If I were any sort of intrepid correspondent, I would have begun this diary when the snow started last Friday. But oh, we were so happy then. Who knew that five days later, many of us would still be housebound — indeed, that this whole snow thing would feel older than the health care debate?  more

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Miracle in Jerusalem

Danielle Crittenden wrote on January 31st, 2010 at 9:07 am

It was only my first day in Jerusalem, but I witnessed a miracle. As the sun set over the golden Dome of the Rock, I watched an Arab Sheik and an Israeli Rabbi pray together. Sorry, make that two Rabbis.  more

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How to Make a Hannukah “Wreath”

Danielle Crittenden wrote on December 9th, 2009 at 2:41 pm

Last Hannukah, I blogged about shedding my Jewish inhibitions about decorating for the season, and decided to go all out celebrating “the festival of light.” This year I’ve gone further and crafted a “wreath”–in the shape of a Star of David.  more

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The Closing of the American Dream

Danielle Crittenden wrote on October 6th, 2009 at 5:31 pm

Another great American dream has been shuttered, like the foreclosed mansions lining the seaside dunes of Long Island.  more

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Dave Matthews Songs to Play at the Wedding

Danielle Crittenden wrote on September 21st, 2009 at 1:31 pm

Leaks from a tell-all book by a one-time aide to John Edwards reveal that Edwards and his mistress, Rielle Hunter, made plans for a wedding to be held after Elizabeth Edwards died. These plans included a rooftop location in Manhattan and, for dancing, the Dave Matthews Band. I’ve put together a Dave Matthews playlist they might wish to consider.  more

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