Suprise Me

One of the best baby shower presents I received when my first child was born was Miss Manners' Guide to Rearing Perfect Children. Read More

Don't try to make me change my mind with facts, To hell with the graduated income tax. How do I know? I read it in the Daily News Read More

Monday, June 9, 2008. Kigali, the capital of Rwanda. I awake early and hear my hostess Shirley Randell swimming in her pool. The goat outside my window bleats. A bit later Shirley, dressed in the sari that’s her daily costume, is rushing off to work. I arrived yesterday, bleary and beat. Shirley was on the… Read More

My father was the youngest of eight children, my mother, the youngest of four and I am their youngest. That makes me the youngest in a large generation of cousins, some old enough to be my own parent. We are a diverse group of people, yet we all get along, have each others’ backs and… Read More

The floor under my feet seemed to drop away, and a roaring began in my head. I must have replayed the message 10 times. Was someone playing a cruel joke? Read More

Haters gonna hate, but I gotta tell you, it is fun to root for a winning team. Over the last couple of years, I have become quite the Patriots fan, political bedfellows aside. I grew up in a household with a father who watched football, baseball and golf constantly, then I married a huge sports… Read More

Later, she claimed that while she remembered being on Broadway, she had no idea why she had suddenly felt disconnected and isolated... Read More

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I am a historian on the interstellar environment Samsara, circa 3200. I explore the many time capsules that were loaded aboard the craft before we departed earth. The capsules were loaded helter-skelter in the pre-launch rush, but I take great delight in randomly sampling their contents. Today I found several intriguing artifacts that had worked… Read More

One professional encounter started so small I could never anticipate how profoundly it would change how I thought about business and maybe even life. Read More