Mean girls and boys

I was never one to tune into Joan Rivers-esque shows during red carpet shows, so this isn’t about that.  But I have always happily engaged in critique as sport, lately extending to social media, when it comes to entertainment awards season. Something has shifted...

The concrete and the divine

Contentedly snowed in last night, I was watching Bill Maher when he and his guest, Lawrence Krauss, laughed uproariously at the topic of a Newsweek cover about Dr. Eben Alexander’s book,  Proof of Heaven. Without even a glimmer of openness to anything Tina Brown...

Opting for compassion

Last week while waiting for a train in Secaucus, I witnessed some disturbing behavior in a family that was also in the waiting area. It stuck with me and after much thought I decided to process it and share what keeps swirling through my mind. It also sent me to my...

Following the ‘script’

When a friend recently sent me a Wall Street Journal article about how teaching cursive is being phased out of our schools, I was stupefied.  I know I’m sometimes resistant to change, but this was really working on me. I loved penmanship in grade school! As with...

This way or that

Every time I see the Nationwide Insurance commercial with the Julia Roberts voiceover talking about all the people driving safely in “the nation” it makes me smile. I just love seeing people through that lens. Then a friend sent me a book called The...