Uncle Barack
posted 2 months ago and has 2 comments
The day after Obama claimed the nomination, a German newspaper ran a picture of the White House on its front page with the headline, "Uncle Barack's Cabin." (Onkel Baracks Hutte)
The cleverness! The outrageousness! The irony delighted me. When "U...
The cleverness! The outrageousness! The irony delighted me. When "U...
Moving Mom
posted 3 months ago, updated about 23 hours later and has 4 comments
"Does age bring awakening?" I ask myself as I stand in the drugstore checkout line, clutching a box of Depends. My sister, Terry, and I are about to move our 93-year-old mom out of the condo where she's lived for decades to a home for people with ...
Shades of '68
posted 5 months ago, updated 1 day later and has 4 comments
I knew Obama was in trouble the weekend before the Ohio-Texas votes. I was at a calling party organized by MoveOn.org. About fifty of us had spread out through a friend’s home in Colorado and were using our cell
phones to call voters in Forth Wort...
phones to call voters in Forth Wort...
MY FIRST CAUCUS (AND LAST?)
posted 6 months ago, updated 1 minute later and has 2 comments
“It’s 7 p.m, and the Democratic caucus is in session!” the leader cried over a bullhorn.
Pandemonium erupted – cheers and war whoops – in the overcrowded school where I was attending my first caucus. I’d moved to Colorado, a caucus state, 5 years...
Pandemonium erupted – cheers and war whoops – in the overcrowded school where I was attending my first caucus. I’d moved to Colorado, a caucus state, 5 years...
The V-Word
posted 7 months ago and has 0 comments
On Christmas Eve, Joan Borysenko and I re-created a dish that her mother and my grandmother used to make. In our memories, it tasted like heaven, but we hadn't eaten it in more than 30 years and were filled with nostalgic longing. Her mother in Bo...
Smashing Donuts
posted 9 months ago and has 1 comment
In New York last week, I joined the striking film and TV writers on the picket line in front of the Disney store on Fifth Avenue. Before the morning was out, I'd gotten involved in a tussle that could only happen when writers strike.
I picked up ...
I picked up ...
Diet Scandal
posted 10 months ago and has 1 comment
A new book by Gary Taubes is making me ponder what I know about eating, weight and disease. In “Good Calories, Bad Calories,” Taubes asserts that there’s no scientific evidence that cholesterol and fat cause heart disease, or that overeating and l...
GRANDPA LOUIE'S PICKLES
posted 11 months ago, updated about 6 hours later and has 6 comments
It's the moment of truth. Six glass jars have been sitting in my garage for three weeks. Like a mother hen, I've been watching them as the water inside turned cloudy and the cucumbers morphed from bright green to a yellowish pea color. Nervously, ...
LEAP! GOES HOLLYWOOD
posted about 1 year ago, updated 2 days later and has 3 comments
I’m sitting in the president’s office at Fox Broadcasting to pitch a drama series inspired by Leap! There are four of us trying to sell this project: Goldie Hawn, Marta Kauffman, Nancy Josephson and me.
Goldie, who will act in and produce the ser...
Goldie, who will act in and produce the ser...
GELATO SLUTS
posted about 1 year ago and has 2 comments
After a week in Dublin, the mother and child reunion tour moves to a town in Sicily, Taormina–built on a cliff above the aqua sea with a snow-capped volcano behind it. After settling into our room, Rachel says she wants to make no plans and have n...
