I don’t think I or any woman I know needs to read  The Shriver Report:  A Women’s Nation Changes Everything http://www.awomansnation.com/ by  Maria Shriver and The Center for American Progress.  Although the Report is being  highly touted as i/… Read full post »

Anti-Semitism has been a fact of my life for its entirety, from the first time, at age 5 or 6 I was told I was going to hell because I did not believe in Jesus, to the countless times I was called a “stupid Jew,” a kike, a… Read full post »

I was in Quiznos the other day (the only place I go for what could be called “fast food”) and the owner, who is an acquaintance of mine, introduced me to a new employee and we got onto the subject of dating—don’t ask, you know how women talk in… Read full post »

           My daughter Grace came home yesterday with some terrible news.  One of her friends had died. And not just died.  C* had committed suicide.

            I t/… Read full post »

I had this admittedly crazy idea to fly up north and fly with my mother back down to my small Virginia town so that she could spend a couple of days with me, see my teenaged daughter whom she hasn’t seen since this summer when we went up to celebrate her… Read full post »

                 Duh.

Okay, perhaps the New York Times article that graced the front page of the Style section recently deserves a little more parsing than that.

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First,  there was Senator Charles Grassley’s not-so-funny suggestion that the heads of A.I.G. should commit public suicide, and then  in yesterday’s Senate hearing Edward Liddy, the Chairman of A.I.G. detailed the numerous death threats the employees of the company had been gett/… Read full post »

                        Got that?  Today on NPR  I heard the end of a segment in w/… Read full post »

My parents had an amazing bookshelf.  I went there from the age of twelve and there I first discovered John Updike.  I read Couples, which was far too mature for me  but was a wonderful secret treat (my parents never censored my reading).  I also found J.D. Salinger, and Kurt Vonn… Read full post »

After he got down on one knee to propose (he was dressed in one- third formalwear: white tuxedo shirt with studs and tie, no jacket, and blue jeans and cowboy boots) with the engagement ring dropped into a flute of very good champagne, we started talking about when we… Read full post »

 you will never see me with Nancy's face!      

             I credit Steve (God help me but I’ve forgotten his last name), a senior in my high school, with first making me feel beautiful.  I ha… Read full post »

                Will anyone ever forget the pictures of Lynndie England, looking as though she were gleefully enjoying he torture of prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad during the American occupation of Iraq? … Read full post »

 The email from my father’s wife said that he had fallen and broken several ribs.  After a horrific night in the emergency room he was, for reasons unfathomable, sent home.  But the next day the pain was so much and his condition so worsened that he was checked into the hospital.… Read full post »

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“What are Americans still buying?  Big Macs, Campbell’s soup, Hershey’s, chocolate, and Spam – the four food groups of the apocalypse.”

             &nb… Read full post »

                     My dad wasn’t around much.  He says he was, says I came home every night for dinner.  Which was true.  When he wasn’t on the road, h/… Read full post »

I need a patron.

Like Rembrandt or Michelangelo.  Not that I am them.  But maybe they wouldn’t have been them either if they hadn’t had patrons.

And we would have been deprived of The Last Supper and the Sistine Chapel.  I am sure, were I pressed, I/… Read full post »

I am not a warmonger.  I hate war.  I did not support the Viet Nam War, nor the Iraq War.  I wish diplomacy would work and I think it can in some instances and should be tried whenever and wherever possible.  But on the issue of sending troops to fight the/… Read full post »

                  My younger sister sent me a photo message on my phone: a picture of the latest bouquet of flowers delivered to my mothers rooms at the assisted living residence where she… Read full post »

This column was supposed to open with a great cartoon from the New Yorker in which a couple is sitting on a couch—they’re both reading magazines-- and the wife says to the husband “I’m more of a ‘How Jen stays thin’ person than a ‘Why Jen/… Read full post »

THESE NOT INSIGNIFICANT THINGS ARE BLESSINGS

                      (in no particular order)

Chicken paprikash and mah jongg with dear friends of an evening

Dancing in the living roo… Read full post »

I offer you the best time waster ever.  Make your own art.  Click and change colors.  C'mon, you can do it.  Waste hours of your work day!!!

What fun.

HAPPY Birthday Jackson Pollock.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lisa-solod-warren/dear-president-obama-with_b_162588.html

Go there and buzz it up, will ya? Read full post »

TV Guide is published weekly; everyone knows they can get their television listings in their local newspaper or on their newspaper's website.  Television and movie reviews are all over the web and the nightly news is available on  three national networks, two all news net… Read full post »