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Sunrise, sunset

Seeing those baby girls.…alongside my grown up daughter….and son—it was impossible not to think back, and hum a few bars….. Is this the little girl I carried? It’s been that kind of weekend. As  proud parents (and sentimental slobs),  my ex and I exchanged a lot of glances behind their backs,   marveling at the two […]

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You've come a long way , baby….

….and I don’t mean the three thousand miles in distance I traveled to New York from California. I’ve also come a long way in time. 40 years to be exact. 40 years ago this fall,  a few hundred women enrolled as undergraduates at Yale for the first time in the school’s 300- year history. To […]

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end of summer, end of an era

Ironic that just last night I wrote about my fantasy of singing with a band— 15 hours later comes the death of Mary Travers.   I hate the idea of posting about another celebrity death,  yet I can’t ignore it—no one meant music to me more than Peter, Paul and Mary—-whose songs run through my entire life, through […]

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Happy belated Cleavage Day–seriously

Maybe you missed it.  I did too.  I had no idea there was another holiday in April.  That April 3 was National Cleavage Day.  And not an April Fool’s joke. I’d like to know why there was no celebration of cleavage when I had some to celebrate. I hope this doesn’t sound like sour grapes  (even […]

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Reality television

WTVJ was the dominant station in Miami television; I grew up watching it.  And I was incredibly lucky to work there, both in the news department and for a wonderful magazine show called Montage.     Every day was an adventure— in front of the camera or behind the scenes.  I learned so much.  I loved every […]

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A first on Facebook

The birthday girl was me. On my right, my sister. And in the seat of honor next to me is Stephanie. She was a couple years older than me and lived nearby and I adored her. We were soulmates. She was my first friend. So it’s appropriate that Stephanie is the first person who emerged […]

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