Send-off party to welcome mat

Last year a friend gave me Guy Kawasaki’s book Enchantment. In the world of me, a person typically not all that interested in reading about marketing, the subtitle – The Art of Changing Hearts, Minds, and Actions – was the big selling point. I’m not a fan of ‘brand’...

An Open Letter to Arianna Huffington

Dear Ms. Huffington: The other day I was trying to locate something among newspaper clips of my work and I found an article that begins like this: “In a land where perpetually blue skies and impeccable beaches serve as the backdrop for the highest mountain peak in the...

In Defense of Cancer (in Plays)

(Nancy’s Note: Happy to give some space in this blog to a guest columnist and writer I greatly respect.) By Charles Evered Could there be a more absurd situation in life than sitting across from a friend at a coffee shop and finding oneself defending the very...

The Return of Lipstick

I went to get my eyebrows threaded the other day and it jarred a memory that made me smile. A few summers ago over an outdoor dinner next to the Hudson River, I was flirtatiously trying to convince a man I had the hots for that I wasn’t high maintenance. “Uh, Nance,...

Our Evolving Beauty

What makes us women? What makes us beautiful? There is a scene in the movie Funny Girl where Fanny Brice, played by Barbra Streisand, marvels at her infant daughter and exclaims to her close friend, “She’s pretty, isn’t she?” We know what that means coming from Fanny,...