"Just tell them the truth, sweetheart. Keep calm, don't let them rattle you. And listen. Carefully." -Lindy Chamberlain to her husband I just watched A... Read more →

I dragged out the photo lights and set them up for a series of jobs coming up over the next several weeks beginning this weekend.... Read more →

Photo Credit: Michael Jackson Now, and I have to say this....aside from a singular and beautifully-dressed mother... I have EIGHT amazing sisters! Do YOU have... Read more →

I haven't blogged in over two months. A lot can happen in a month or two. A lot can happen in thirteen years. Or forty-one..!... Read more →

I got a text from K late last night or early this morning depending on how you look at it. She wanted to see a... Read more →

Film adaptation of INTO THE WOODS. Meryl Streep in talks to play the witch... Yes, please! That is all. Read more →

Come on now, people, must we always be 'offenders for a word?' You know it's true, my Romney-voting-friends, that if it had been Romney who... Read more →

I am operating under the assumption that - whether you like it or not, believe it or not, want to admit it or not -... Read more →

"You mean to tell me that, as long as I loudly and eloquently speak in support of LGBT and women's rights, that I can do... Read more →

Atticus Finch taught his daughter, Scout, that you never really know a man until you see things from his point of view. Step into his... Read more →

I entered a photoraphy contest earlier this week, with the photo above as my entry. It's a weekly contest and for this round, the 'assignment'... Read more →

And so it was that from the Bronx a decree was sent forth and was heard throughout the land; a caveat irrevocably added to an... Read more →

No, this post is not about rape, per se. Other than to say I read another blog post about dolphin sex and free-falling from an... Read more →

Every year members of my church (Latter-Day Saints/Mormons) around Manhattan throw a street fair to raise money for various childrens' activities like summer camp, and... Read more →

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"Eye of Newt, and toe of frog, Wool of bat, and tongue of dog, Adder's fork, and blind-worm's sting, Lizard's leg, and howlet's wing,-- For... Read more →

Walked into first day of writing class today, and what to my wondering eyes did appear, but some great peeps from last class AND some... Read more →

President Obama and most of Congress - including ALL NY representatives - has permanently lost my confidence and my vote. Sixth Amendment? Oh, no, we... Read more →

Let me get this on the record right now before all the awards start coming and the banter gets buzzing. Meryl Streep WILL win the... Read more →

This morning I quoted Annie Lennox and the Eurythmics: ‎We should have jumped out of that airplane after all Flying skyways overhead it wasn´t hard... Read more →

I'll send off 2010 with what are still my favorite words adapted for screen. Thank you Harper Lee for giving us Scout Finch and the... Read more →

I wrote this post nearly a month ago today - on August 11th - but never acutally posted it. The truth is I am sometimes... Read more →

Last night I had a dream. There was a tree. Actually there was a whole row of trees along the sidewalk I was moving on.... Read more →

I've always been interested in people on park benches and bus stop seats. You never know who you'll run into. Once, when I was coming... Read more →

The title is one of my favorite lines from On Golden Pond. Katharine Hepburn's character says it to Jane Fonda's, the one who is dealing... Read more →

Today I took the Long Island Rail to Mineola. A first. The end station on the route is Ronkonkoma. Can you pronounce that? Ronkonkoma. Read more →

"Don't you love farce? My fault, I fear... Losing my timing this late in my career. But where are the clowns? There aught to be... Read more →

I could not resist posting my comment to another blog. It's hosted by a group of female Mormon writers and is called "The Apron Stage."... Read more →

"Well don't 'tu-tuhhh!' You think she wanted to get her stomach pumped again? No! She thought they were her antibiotics, darling." You get a gold... Read more →

When I posted a link to this blog on my facebook page, the first response was, “You so reek Meryl Streep fan!” It came from... Read more →

After I spend my entire day talking to other people, I get pretty non-verbal and only want to talk to myself and to various other... Read more →