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Farrah

There’s no way to prepare for the ultimate test of your life.   The time that can define the deepest truth of who you are. Sometimes that truth brings surprises.  You think you know yourself, or someone else.  But you don’t know how anyone will react until it happens. Looking back, I don’t think cancer was my finest […]

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Natasha Richardson

There’s nothing else I can write about tonight.    I can’t stop thinking about her. It makes so little sense….and so much sorrow. It reminds me of the opening line from Love Story:  “What can you say about a 25 year old girl who died?”    Natasha Richardson was 45, but it doesn’t change the point—what can […]

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5 rules for Facebook families

As parents, one of our jobs is teaching our kids the facts of life. Even though many parents never really do this, kids manage to learn them anyway. Now the shoe is on the other foot. Kids are teaching their parents the facts of Facebook. Even though many kids never really do this, parents manage […]

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Twitter High

Twitter is tipping. Tipping as in Tipping Point. And I know some people reading this still don’t know what Twitter is. I didn’t know either when I started blogging and my first internet friend recommended I join Twitter. It was so completely confusing I had no idea what it was or what to do with […]

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Got Milk

The movie Milk shows that the seeds of San Francisco’s gay rights movement were planted in Miami in 1977– during the bitter campaign involving singer Anita Bryant. At the time, I was a reporter at the CBS station in Miami–the movie actually includes our news footage. The station’s editorials were strongly anti-gay. Behind the scenes, it […]

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You had me at hello

I still say it when I answer the phone.   I’ve been saying “hello” way too  long to stop now.  Even though I know who’s calling.  I could say anything I want.   Only I don’t.  I keep saying “hello.” That’s when I pick up the phone.  Which is getting more sporadic and less automatic.  This is not just […]

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