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...