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My daughter Tafv and her friend and fellow designer Katie Gargan are putting on a sh

My friend David Rensin

From mid-life to old-age: just watched this clip featuring the actor Ernest Borgnine, who apparently has a new book out, and of whom I've been a fan since my folks took m

After an exchange with my agent, who mentioned that I do not show 1/1000th the empathy for myself as I do for the other people I write about, I picked from our email exchanges a book called Mid-Life, Notes from the Halfway Mark

Boy, my mom and I vehemently disagree about the Edwards imbroglio. On Sunday, she launched into what I could tell was just a sad, sad story for her, about how she'd been in a cafe in Rhinebeck, having breakfast, surrounded by weekenders ordering their $15 plates of eggs and sausage, opening the Sunday New York Times and,

So last year when John Edwards decided to run for president -- this, in light of his wife Elizabeth just having been diagnosed with incurable bone cancer -- I thought, wow, that's kind of selfish of him. My thinking went: running for president is hard, requires long hours and lots of contention and inasmuch as is possibl

Oh, bloated Dark Knight,cranky and bored we implore,"Will it never end?"

Really in the soup here with getting the new Ristretto launched, work, life, enjoying summer in PDX, including getting last night to Belly, which I really loved. I don't know that they yet have a website but you can check ou

Want to see The Dark Knight, and check out Belly, but mostly I just want this.

Typing this from porch of Chilmark Public Library, the only place I've pick