Those of us who have reached a certain age were taught in elementary school that voting is the underlying power of a democracy, that it was both a privilege and a duty never to be ignored. We understood the seriousness of voting for our elected officials, that we were, each of us, guaranteed the right to cast our ballot....

Mother’s Day is almost here. With you in coronavirus isolation unable to spend a nice leisurely day shopping in her favorite stores for the perfect gift. Yes, you can do what the news stories are telling you can do; go online and send flowers, send her a gift certificate for her favorite restaurant, if and only if they are...

Is there anything quite like the jolt of happiness that comes with getting a new pet? Is there anything quite like the unconditional love that a pet can bring us? Probably not. When the day has gone not so well, when we are grieving, when we have been dumped by romance, when the job we wanted went to someone...

We are warned to wash our hands for 20 seconds and often. We are told to stay 6′ from all other human beings. We must wear protective masks when out of the house. We have a new vocabulary that includes “sheltering at home” “social distancing” “rising numbers” and “essential businesses” “spiking” “ventilators” “home-made masks” and a host of other...

We are living through days of extreme challenge, extreme sadness and a horrible death toll. Rules for living have changed right before our eyes. There is more a need than ever for the human race to pull together to defeat this virus that has assaulted us with such brutality and speed. And, pull together it has in ways both...

That is because telling the truth is her driving force. It comes naturally to her. You can see this in her novels, The Rise and Fall of a Jewish American Princess a wrenching personal story, The Viagra Diaries (don’t even ask!) and her latest, Love, Sometimes: A Novel About Risk, Hollywood and Controversial Love , a more than...

Linda Nacif shares a personal story so complex that only listening to her tell it will do it justice. Suffice it to say that she was born into one culture and, for reasons of love having grabbed a hold of her when she was 17 and on a trip to Mexico, she switched. Yes, redefined herself totally, married the best...

Our Bodies Ouselves, the book that millions of women turn to for information they could not get elsewhere. With 4,000,000+copies in print in 29 languages worldwide, it has become the saving grace for countless women across the globe. This book made women safe through the power of information. It was the 1960s, and hard as it is to...

How often do we hear as the first response on hearing that someone has died, “Was it expected?” What?! Maybe that is fear talking or a stalling for time until we can figure out what we really want to say when someone we know has died. But given that life comes with a guarantee of death, how can we not...

I have discovered a whole new world of reliable truth about those birds we all see around town. Yes, more about pigeons, but now so much more than what I learned lately about these heroes of the skies  (and in one case thought I learned, but wrong I was so now have to correct my all too public blunder)....