October fades into November…..the orange and black (and candy) of Halloween are gone….. We turn back the clocks, and the days fade into night. Fall foliage fades into winter…. and pink fades too—from all the consumer products and from the consciousness of most people. But nothing fades in November for the faces behind the ribbons—the […]
Code Brown: the Global Chocolate Crunch
The nations of the world haven’t managed to reach agreement on how to confront global warming. But now faced with an even great threat, no one is Snickering. My mind reeled as I tried to Crunch the numbers: there it was —in black and white—and brown. The world could run out of affordable chocolate within […]
Book Stew
Though lately I’ve been occupied with boobs, I’m shifting over by one letter. I missed writing about the latest books from my online book club– but don’t miss reading them. Room by Emma Donoghue, and The Kids are All Right–—by Diana, Liz, Amanda and Jack Welch. One is fiction; one is true—both are about […]
Buried Treasure
V was on a business trip this weekend and an old friend was in town overnight. We had a girls’ pajama party, talking into the middle of the night. (that photo isn’t us, by the way. We were drinking wine.) When she left the next morning, I realized this little snapshot of one night is […]
Anna Nicole Smith and the Breasts that Shook the World
Everything I read about her reminds me of the day I met her….very memorably in the middle of nowhere. And though you wouldn’t think someone like me would have anything in common with her—we actually did. There’s my son, first of all. That’s him, a moment a teenage boy could never forget. We were in […]
When the going gets tough….laugh
Corny as it sounds, sometimes laughter really is the best medicine. Scientific study has proven that it benefits the heart, and the immune system, by reducing the levels of cortisol, the stress hormone. Of course when bad things happen, there’s nothing to laugh about. Although those are the times we need it most. I didn’t […]
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