Laura Linney has a new show on Showtime, The Big C, and that is a good thing. Laura Linney is a wonderful actress, and a beautiful woman over the age of 25, and anytime anyone puts her on TV the world gets a little bit better. Also, Gabourey Sidibe is in it, and as far as I can tell no one is raping or force-feeding … Continue reading I’ll just have dessert, without the cancer
This is a love story, which begins, as these things so often do, with a (paraphrased) line from The Fantasticks: There is this boy. He’s a man now, but when I knew him, when I loved him, he was a boy. We were teenagers, in the late 1980s, in a suburban town in Westchester, NY. He was good-natured and darkly mischievous, politically active in a … Continue reading Juliet at 41
I’ve been going back and forth over whether to get an iPad or a Kindle. I even polled my Twitter and Facebook friends. Pros and cons for both were offered with heartfelt enthusiasm. After carefully weighing my options, I’ve made a decision: Books. Sticking with books. Here’s why: 1) Pages. Open a book that’s been sitting on your shelf for a while, and there’s no … Continue reading Kindle vs. iPad: The Decision
I’m playing midwife for my friend Terry’s book. Months ago, Terry and I were out to dinner, and she was bemoaning her ongoing unemployment. To try and cheer her up, I started telling tales of awful jobs I’ve had. The third-rate cable channel with the passive-aggressive manager who used to sneak up behind me and announce herself by pretending to knock on the air next … Continue reading Other People’s Writing
We had grand plans for celebrating Christmas and the New Year. Grand by “parents-of-a-4-year-old” standards, that is. I was to leave work on Christmas Eve and not return until January 5 — 11 days of peaceful baking, gifting, going to the spa with my best friend, Lisa, playing with my daughter, Emmy, and reacquainting myself with my husband, Jon. We intended to spend Christmas at … Continue reading Thanks Santa
Working Without a Net 