When our cultural icons die

September 7, 2026
As I write this we’ve just lost both Dolly Parton and Gloria Steinem, two women who helped shape our generation. Why do I feel such grief? It hits differently when a cultural icon dies. The grief can seem strangely disproportionate to the relationship we actually had with them. We had...

In the future, remembering days past

May 15, 2015
It was 1967 and I was 16 years old when I heard the opening lines of Nights in White Satin. And then, the heavily orchestrated music of the Moody Blues began: Nights...

What would YOU give up for fame?

May 14, 2015
Have you ever wanted to be famous?  Some people are driven to it and will put just about everything on the line to get it.  Everything. Sometimes, too much. ...

The brave new world of kitchen stoves

May 13, 2015
I promise you I have never, EVER read instructions for a kitchen stove. Ever. Not in the at least 40 years that I've been cooking. My habit was to approach a stove,...

I’m not a blogger

May 12, 2015
I'm really not a blogger, not really. Well, I am. Sort of. Let me explain. I'm a writer with a blog. I'm someone who uses her blog as her medium. One of her...

One Day in Auschwitz

May 11, 2015
Somehow, M's alum group in San Francisco found him and sent a mailer for an unusual event. It was a screening of a film in which one of the last Auschwitz survivors...

Sandy: no coincidence

May 10, 2015
And everywhere I go There you will find Sandy So the other day I was driving down Highway 17 toward the Los Gatos hills, thinking about my mother. It was the day of...

One life, don’t blow it!

May 9, 2015
We had our first Kona Brewing Company beer at a party we attended the other night.  I wasn't surprised to see the brand, since our friends have a place in Hawaii,...

Rx for the world: a dose of understanding

May 8, 2015
When I read this story about the response of airline passengers to ultra-Orthodox Jewish men who did not want to sit next to women on airplanes, my mind was a muddle of...

Prisoners of our own device

May 7, 2015
Have you been the architect of your own problems or even failures at times?  I feel your pain.  Do you see your future as limited or do you see it as limitless? If...

When the truth is found to be lies

May 6, 2015
"If only he didn't lie so much," she told me over coffee. "I never felt like I was on solid ground." Isn't it funny how only truth provides traction? Untruths are...

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