My greyhound is going deaf. The bad news is that she can no longer hear the vast array of Broadway show tunes which are the soundtrack of our life or my voice when I tell her that I love her. The [...]
When I was nine, I wanted to be Drusilla…. Wonder Woman’s little sister. Every Friday night, I was glued to the television watching Lynda Carter repeatedly save Lyle Waggoner’s ass. I religiously [...]
25 years ago, I uprooted my entire life. I was enjoying a successful career as a field hockey and lacrosse coach and my future was determined… it had pretty much been determined since I was [...]
I have found the fountain of youth… and unlike Ponce de León, I am going to share my secret. Here’s the thing. I used to have acne. Bad, bad, bad, bad, BAD acne. Remarkably, I wasn’t a [...]
When it comes to the news, my dad is, hands down, the most well-read person on the planet. And that is not an exaggeration. We’ve been getting 13+ papers delivered to the house for as long as I [...]
I love independent bookstores. I have since I was a little girl and I used to spend all of my birthday and babysitting money on books. My parents would take me to our local bookstore and I’d [...]
I’m angry. I am so fucking angry at Alzheimer’s. Today is my best friend Jill’s birthday. She is 79 years old and the last ‘real’ birthday we spent together was when she was 75. It was only [...]
I have always believed in death with dignity. I wrote a play about it. I have seen too many people suffer unnecessarily because of the law and the selfishness of those who prolong their [...]
Love. Literally, it is all about love. Now, granted, we wrote a terrific book. However, I have been to innumerable book signings for really terrific books that have had fewer than ten people in [...]
Randy Jackson is sexy. You know when you meet someone in real life and they disappoint? I do. It’s happened innumerable times. 20+ years of living in Hollywood, I have run into my fair share of [...]