Shining a light on ‘Renoir’

GAME PLAN: I so love words and putting them together to share my thoughts with the world, but sometimes there is nothing like seeing someone else use their words to great effect. Director Gilles Bourdos has managed to articulate something I feel again and again and...

Life Coaching the New Pope

GAME PLAN: Dear Soon-to-Be Your Holiness — It is time. You can feel it, can’t you? The old, dusty walls, in their own way, are crumbling down around you and leaving gaping holes in this Church of yours.  All metaphor, of course, for a much more immense structure...

Life coaching Piers Morgan

With the intersection of seeing the film The King’s Speech and the debut of Piers Morgan on CNN this week came a logical connection for me. I loved the movie and enjoyed Morgan’s interviews, but the life coach/journalist/spiritual soul in me wanted more,...

Thank you, Mark Zuckerberg

Last week the buzz was all about education as the film Waiting for Superman was released — what an eye-opener! — and it was announced that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was donating $100 million to Newark schools. Newark Mayor Cory Booker and New Jersey...

Eat Pray Love … Metamorphosis

It was exciting to see Eat Pray Love at the Ziegfeld Theatre opening night with author Elizabeth Gilbert doing a Q&A and her family and friends sitting in our section. While some of the national conversation revolves around how good (or not) an adaptation the film...