Thursday, April 29, 2010

Papa and that Napalm Girl

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Writing about our father yesterday, I found memories flooding back. I woke up this morning resolved to write more about my time with the ma...
Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Picketing Safeway for Life

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Our father never met a picket line he would cross and seldom met one he wouldn't join. The right of workers to organize was sacred to h...
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Sunday, April 25, 2010

Busted at the Co-op

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Sometimes it can be difficult to live a coherent lifestyle. A former friendly supervisor once explained to her boss upon my departure why I...
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Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Who's Earl Warren, 2010?

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Caveat: different versions of this same rant can no doubt be found all over the internet for the past few weeks. I have not read them. Thi...
Tuesday, April 20, 2010

5 Snouts Up for Someone to Watch Over Me at Capital Stage Closing this Week

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(:)(:)(:)(:)(:) A combination of homework and computer problems has conspired to keep me from raving sooner about this amazing play in its ...
Friday, April 02, 2010

Day 4--San Francisco

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Got up at dawn to move my car that took me freakin' 45 minutes to park and had to park 7 blocks away at a meter, legal, but oh so moveab...
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Thursday, April 01, 2010

Day 3--San Francisco

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Well, this is much later but we took Alcatraz Cruise to Alcatraz and then to Angel Island. Expensive ($50 each) but worth it unless you hav...
Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Day 2 -- San Francisco

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Summary (:)(:)(:) Academy of Art and Sciences (:)(:)(:)(:) Ghostwriter at the Balboa (:)(:)(:)(:)(:) Shanghai Dumpling King on Balboa in Upp...

Day 1 -- San Francisco

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Staying in a great apartment on Oak Street in Hayes Valley. Day 1, my daughter and I walk down to Union Square to shop -- she needs basical...
Thursday, March 25, 2010

When are WE going to get over it?

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Andrew M. Manis is associate professor of history at Macon State College in Georgia and purportedly wrote this for an editorial in the Macon...
Wednesday, March 24, 2010

My take on health care reform

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For months I have been assiduously avoiding commenting on the current national health care reform debate. My reasons for this were many: I ...
Friday, March 19, 2010

Postcard from Buffalo

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A rare trip to Buffalo, New York in the spring (occasioned by an insurance company flying me out to depose me in a personal injury case in w...
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Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Today at 11am--me on Spirt Talk Live

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Rabbi Wayne Dosick host of Spirit Talk Live! will air an interview with me on the topic of Pursuing a Ministry in Midlife on his show today,...

Chomsky on The Corporate Takeover of U.S. Democracy

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By NOAM CHOMSKY Jan. 21, 2010, will go down as a dark day in the history of U.S. democracy, and its decline. On that day the U.S. Supreme Co...
Monday, March 08, 2010

Bullocks to Bridges

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What a cruel joke that long-overlooked Jeff Bridges had to have his night cheapened by long-overrated Sandra Bullocks. I mean, come on! Th...
Friday, March 05, 2010

Buy, Buy American Pie

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Wednesday, March 03, 2010

Speakeasies in Highschool?

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Late Friday afternoon our 15-year-old announces that there is a "speakeasy" at his highschool that evening and that he'd like ...
Tuesday, March 02, 2010

The Joy of Chemicals

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Popular shampoos contain toxic chemicals linked to nerve damage (asthma, and a host of issues--see this article among many others "How ...
Monday, March 01, 2010

Me on Spirit Talk Live 3/10

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Rabbi Wayne Dosick host of Spirit Talk Live! will air an interview with me on the topic of Pursuing a Ministry in Midlife on his show Wednes...
Wednesday, February 24, 2010

5 Snouts Up for Ace in the Hole

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(:)(:)(:)(:)(:) for Ace in the Hole black and white 1959 Billy Wilder film starring Kirk Douglas. I don't know how my husband does it ...