Reid, race and the right

by | Jan 10, 2010 | Write Thinking

In their new book Game Change, political reporters Mark Halperin and John Heilemann write this about Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid during the 2008 Presidential campaign: He was wowed by Obama’s oratorical gifts and believed that the country was ready to...

Weinreb on Oprah

by | Jan 8, 2010 | Write Thinking

So I’m writing all afternoon in a cafe and I return home and turn on the last 15 minutes of Oprah. She’s interviewing a woman whose voice is completely familiar and then it hits me — Karen Weinreb. Readers of my Game Plan columns will recall the...

The Elizabeth Gilbert Effect

by | Jan 8, 2010 | Write Thinking

Like millions of others, the book Eat, Pray, Love had a profound impact on me. So it was with much anticipation that I awaited Elizabeth Gilbert’s new book, Committed, which just hit the shelves this week. Along with friends Kathi and Gladys, I took in the...

Quotable

by | Jan 5, 2010 | The Universal Flow

Before I switch over from reading one book to another, I must share my favorite passage from Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Nature: The misery of man appears like childish petulance, when we explore the steady and prodigal provision that has been made for his support and...