Heeding the need to express

When a despicable hacker made his or her way into the email accounts of George W. Bush and family, I cringed.  However, I can’t say the same for my reaction when I saw the former President’s paintings that were exposed in the process. So captivating....

Transported

Thoroughly enjoyed a terrific 24 hours jam-packed with culture courtesy of New York City. It’s hard to believe I didn’t always live a stone’s throw from Manhattan with the ability to partake in all its opportunities. On Thursday evening my friend...

What are you wearing?

Way back in the day when I was a sports writer, I belonged to the Association for Women in Sports Media. The annual conference was wonderfully enriching every year and one of the best parts was the crew I got to hang with. A fashion spread in New York magazine last...

Kusama-world

Back in 1998 when I still lived in a Central New Jersey suburb, but a year or so after completing a Knight-Wallace Fellowship at the University of Michigan, I spent a vacation week in Manhattan at the West Village apartment of my friend Christina (also a UMich...

The guru within

My Game Plan columns have been very organic lately, as the events of 2012 have kind of upended me and prompted a whole lot of learning. A recent article in New York magazine tapped into some thoughts I’d been having about gurus, those self-described and those we...