What a fun month this has been! In addition to interviewing Kimmie Meissner and Salma Hayek, last week I got to sit down in person with Olympic ice dancers Tanith Belbin and Ben Agosto.

Tanith and Ben are absolutely lovely - very down to earth. Ben is friendly and laid back, cracking jokes and laughing a lot, . . . → Read More: More on the Belbin & Agosto Interview

OK, I know that in my limited posts over the last month I’ve dedicated a lot of air time to figure skating, but what can I say? ‘Tis the season! I promise there’s more non-skating pop fodder to come, but meanwhile, I had to share this link.

It never ceases to amaze me when I get emails . . . → Read More: Blog and Be Heard

A lot has happened since blogging last week about the lack of media attention regarding the US Figure Skating Championships. Some cool opportunities cropped up for me (details to be revealed later!), Kimmie Meissner and Emily Hughes both withdrew due to injury, and the media finally sat up and paid attention when Alissa Czisny rose to . . . → Read More: Live Blogging the US Figure Skating Championships

As if I need another reason to adore Michelle Kwan… the Los Angeles Times covers Michelle’s recent visit and skating session with Leah Smith, a pediatric heart transplant survivor who has idolized Kwan for a decade.

At the end of the article Michelle keeps alive talk of her possible run for the 2010 Olympics. I’m not holding . . . → Read More: Kwan Grants A Wish

The US Figure Skating Championships start this weekend and I find myself utterly depressed. I’ve written before on the currently flat nature of women’s figure skating and this event has zero buzz. Short of USFSA’s post about ice dancers Belbin & Agosto withdrawing due to injury, and a couple of Ohio-based blogs that have announced the . . . → Read More: No Skating Buzz, In Boston or Beyond

You won’t catch me in a leotard any time soon, but I’m almost tempted to buy one from Shawn Johnson’s new signature line. Not only because I too believe in peace and love, but because she was such a dynamo at the 2008 Olympics – both in doing the physically unimaginable, and for showing incredible grace . . . → Read More: Peace & Love Leotards

I love the spectacle of figure skating, but ever since Michelle Kwan and Sasha Cohen left the competitive circuit following the 2006 Olympics, the field has been lackluster. Some blame the now not-so-new technical points scoring system (which forces skaters to cram in tricks), but the reality is that no one in the women’s field has . . . → Read More: Rooting for Kwan & Cohen Comebacks