Empower— for some reason I’ve never liked that word. It also happens to be the key word in the mission of Maria Shriver’s annual Women’s Conference, that I attended this week in Long Beach: We Empower Women to be Architects of Change. I say this with due respect—-and new respect—for what California’s First Lady accomplished […]
Darryle…doubled
When I was a kid I desperately wanted my name to be Debbie….or Susan….or Barbara. Like all the other girls. What were my parents thinking??? Darryle? I hated it. Hated that it was so different. Hated that no one could spell it. Hated most of all that it was a boy’s name. My mother had […]
Paleontology
While I was in New York I spent some time with my brother, who lives nearby. Like many Jewish guys of our generation, he’s a doctor. He’s also a dinosaur—practically the only person in my life who doesn’t communicate by computer. Just before I got to New York last week, my brother finally caved in, […]
Love, Loss and What I Wore
LOVE Of all that I love about New York, what I love most is the theater. I won’t list what I’m seeing this trip; if you love theater too, you’ll just be jealous. I’ll only mention one; the play I saw tonight. It’s adapted from a book I love: Love, Loss and What I […]
Amazing Grace
I’m constantly astounded by all the formulas and fillers and surgeries and suction and other stuff women do in desperation to drink every last drop from the fountain of youth. So it was a rare treat recently to see a woman on a movie screen who’s over a certain age—and actually looks it. It’s NOT a surprise […]
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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