It could be the beginning of a time-travel Thanksgiving tale: Connectedness = Karmic Gratitude. Miracle in the City of Angels. And yet, it really happened, once upon this time.

A few days ago, a thin envelope floated down out of the blue onto the grounds of "The Tree...

Charlie Sheen is definitely mad as hell and not taking it anymore. His angry calls into radio stations have evolved into wacky but entertaining (at least, until the allegations of spousal abuse and parental issues resurfaced) television interviews. TV is his friend. He has played a charming bad boy...

I'm ending a long-term relationship with you, my companion of many years. We've clocked many a mile, scaled peaks and survived valley dips, shared run-ins and breakdowns. But you weren't honest, haven't been listening and often don't respond. I never thought it would end like this between me and you,...

I Google, you Google, we all pretty much Google...but what do we Google? Well, we all know about work and pleasure Googling. But some of us Google ourselves when we're avoiding our work and pleasure. The thing about Googling anything is that if you serial Google, you're not just repeating...

After Kanye West's major steal-the-spotlight intrusion into Taylor Swift's big moment (the one that Beyonce graciously gave back to her) at the VMAs, celebs and fans tweeted, 'statused,' and just plain wondered what Kanye was on, besides Hennessy and ego.

Well, me too. So I googled "Kanye apologizes," figuring...

Are we are all in danger of ending up like our worst parent?

Have you ever looked into your own inner mirror and thought: Mirror, mirror on the wall, have I become my parent after all?

Many of us experience the weird bounce-back: you know, growing up and vowing...

Why do some tragedies that ride the 24/7 media wave feel so personal? Why did the sad, accidental death of Natasha Richardson make my girlfriends feel like they'd been punched in the gut? I heard repeatedly, "I just can't get over it."

Almost all of these women had never...

No doubt about it, these are scary times. It's everywhere. Read it online and on people's stressed faces. See it in empty storefronts, lighter daytime street commuter traffic, thinner mail (businesses don't have money to market themselves; it's great not to have all the junk mail but still...). Hear it...

I have become increasingly aware of how little I understand men -- how they operate, what drives them. 'You have no idea how much men are led by their...' my very significant other said to me at the dinner table (not for the first time). But this time, it was...

When I first knew Benazir Bhutto, it was not as the larger than life 'Antigone' tragic figure she became but rather as a fellow undergraduate at Harvard College. Benazir, known by family and then friends as 'Pinky' because of her pink complexion, lived in a connecting dorm to mine at...

My kids sometimes ask me in non-narcissistic lapses how it was different when I was a kid. Inevitably, the conversation hits the shock value moment where they say incredulously, "U really didn't have email? Seriously, like what did u do?" I explain that 'seriously, like' we didn't even have the...

Having moved from New York at age three because Lucy and Desi Arnez moved my parents out to Desilu Studios in Hollywood, I grew up with writers strikes galore, some that loomed, gloomed, and then somehow didn't materialize and everything kinda went back to business as normal. But some work...