Cyra offered her silk long johns, Carol lent her camera, another Carol knit me mittens and a scarf, and Liz, Leah, and Kristi delivered into my arms a variegated bouquet of gowns and gown-like contenders -- the trying on of which made me grateful my home has no hidden camera....

Is anyone else having this problem?

Barack Obama is messing up my work. In my case, a book. True, I'm not the speediest interviewer/researcher/writer, but after The Thin Man (as my husband fondly refers to him) announced in that topcoat in the land of Lincoln that he was running for...

Enough, already. It is time to deconstruct the disaffected.

As the Obama campaign continues to court Hillary Holdouts, not to mention Her and Him, and as her supporters continue to express resignation, anger, pique, sadness, whatever, one element seems oddly lacking in the public discussion about...

In the months since I wrote "My Hillary Problem" for this space -- a pondering that moved hundreds of readers to toss bouquets or vitriol, often toward one another - the Democratic presidential race has narrowed itself to three candidates (Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Bill Clinton), the war...

By many measures, I should be wild about Hillary.

We have so much in common. We both are about the same age, both grew up as white Protestant Republican daughters in correspondingly mono-culture neighborhoods, hers in Illinois, mine in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Thanks to our parents and...