Finally—it’s not about food. Though I’m writing this after spending the day in the kitchen baking ten loaves of pumpkin bread. I used to be mystified when I’d hear people claim that baking or cooking is how they “relax.” Were they kidding? All I got out of today—-if you don’t count the calories—was what I […]
brain power
Possibly I”m one of the last people on the planet to hear about Jill Bolte Taylor. I didn’t read her book, or watch her with Oprah, or see the video of her talk at TED that went viral. I didn’t know that in 2008, TIME Magazine named her one of the 100 Most Influential People […]
"Light"-headed
This is me about to chop off my hair to make a wig for a cancer patient. The patient was me. I look far more brave than I felt. Same thing 14 years later…….this time donating the hair—to make a wig for someone else. I felt way different this time. I felt…light. Probably because […]
Larger than life
Lately I feel as if I’m doing a daily post about another person who died—and for me, they’re all connected—by that war we’ve been fighting since the time of Vietnam—the one close to home—the war against cancer. In my twenties, when I made a documentary about breast cancer—I was sure I would see the end of this […]
Where are the casseroles?
Years ago when I was a young mom living in Los Angeles, I associated crises with casseroles. It seemed as if whenever something serious happened, a group of women would circle the wagons around the woman in need of support— and magically, casseroles would appear at her door every night until the crisis passed. For a […]
the gift of a life
“Feeling happiness and gratitude—and thinking you can’t feel one without the other”: That’s what I wrote to update my Facebook status earlier today. Right afterwards I sat down to write a blog postscript on my birthday—- when the phone rang and pierced my cocoon of chocolate and family. Now… a few hours and a lifetime later… I’m back to that post. […]
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