It’s Saturday afternoon. US Open, and I’m as glued to my TV as I’ve been in a long time! Melanie Oudin, the feisty 17-year old from Marietta, Georgia, just took the second set 6-4 after a couple of grueling games. This is US Open as we love it – two tough competitors, and a youngster with […]
Medical Marvels
At a time when the health care debate is raging, and we often feel overwhelmed by mounting medical costs and what seems like indifferent or below average care, it’s important to point out positive examples. There are many – when fine physicians and state-of-the-art facilities work wonders. Babies are always miracles, even when there aren’t […]
Counting Shoes Instead of Sheep
Counting shoes instead of sheep, Damn, I wish that I could sleep! Too much on my weary mind – Single mother’s gag-me grind. Where the heck is that good booze? Higher proof for taller shoes! (Kiddo’s in his room in bed, I’ve got time for sipping red…) This, the week from hell, no doubt, While […]
Billions of bucks in the Love Biz?
Love, thy name is business. Let me count the ways. I’ve been thinking about the Love Biz, musing over my history and wondering about my future, even as I’ve canceled out of Match.com yet one more time. Yep, after following the rules of its 6-month guarantee. Love, clearly, isn’t just big biz. It’s gargantuan. It […]
Bette, Joan, Anne. Excedrin.
Bette Midler was in the crowd just in front of me. She looked fab – about 15 years younger, hair the color of flames. She was mouthing off to Joan Rivers who was laughing and dropping a few sarcastic lines of her own. They disappeared into the throng of people pushing through revolving doors, as […]
What Do You Do When a Kid Won’t Talk?
Ways around the silent treatment, when it comes to tweens and teens.
Tennis teasers
For a change, I thought I’d offer up a nice plate overflowing with images. It’s tennis time around here, and I dug through some of my best memories, and found some cool shots of tennis stars – at work and at play. Or is that at play and at play? As Day 3 of the […]
Knees make news, and US Open moments
It’s US Open time. Tennis! And last night on ESPN I watched Venus Williams play Vera Dushevina, remembering the Williams sisters some 10 years ago, and how exciting that was. This match had its tense moments, but it seemed more painful than exciting as Williams struggled with knee pain to drop the first set in […]
Everyone has an agenda. But gimme a break!
I’m rushing to get out of the house. My kid forgot his tennis shoes. Again. He needs them for school, and he needs them now. I’m mid-screen, mid-writing, mid-hair drying, mid-bill paying. And now the damn house phone rings, then my cell phone. It’s someone I know – not well – who wants something from […]
Mad Men, Baudelaire, and the Beatles
It’s Mad Men night! I do so love my Mad Men. What’s not to love? They’re gorgeous, glamorous, mysterious, and the psychological waters are darkening, pulling us in and under. But I watch for other reasons – probably like many viewers. I watch for the aura of the 1960s, either as we imagine it, or […]