Annabelle Gurwitch

Since the 1960s, scores of mothers in America have shared in the experience of reading P. D. Eastman's classic tale Are you My Mother? to their children. A silly and heartwarming story unfolds as a confused little bird mistakes it's mother for a cow, a car and a...

Dear Funster,

I am writing to encourage you to stick out the campaign and not just because it's fun to watch you vamp when all kinds of things are spinning around in your head.

I can't help but think that the latest revelation of your relationship with Ginger...

My heart sank with news of Weinergate. I actually believed Rep. Anthony Weiner when he said his Twitter account was hacked, I mean, his name is Weiner, it's too predictable. But it was just confirmation that humans are incapable of resisting the temptation to capture our image naked or in...

As we know, pork like defunding Planned Parenthood, repealing aspects of health care and EPA control of air pollution is continuing to stand between passing a budget. But pork might just be the answer to convincing extremists to change their minds.

Though a distrust of science has been the...

The Obama Administration announced that marriage should no longer be defined as between a man and a woman, but it will still be defined as miserable my most married people.

This morning as I slogged through the scores of liberal outrage emails I now receive on an...

This week, Former Speaker of the House and twice divorced Newt Gingrich celebrated the Republican House vote on health care, stating that far from being symbolic, it was a first step in repealing the legislation, a move that leaves me wondering, who will champion the rights of people like me,...

Are you looking to date a Nobel laureate who isn't afraid to engage in a politically motivated, media focus-grouped PDA, and who doesn't let the fact that our earth is rapidly turning into a raging ball of fire ruin his day?

Well, you might just the best candidate to become...

As the mother of a kid with chronic health condition, I'm deeply invested in health care reform.

Just one night in our lives provides an example of the failures of our health care system, the connection between jobs and health care, and game of chicken we're playing...

It's Valentine's Day, and if you want fantasy, go see the movie which is starring everyone in Hollywood except Lil' Wayne. If you want reality, pre-order our book You Say Tomato, I Say Shut Up on Amazon. (Shameless plug, we know.) We've spent a lot of time thinking...

It has been a banner year for marital tankings. We're talking supreme tankage here. Famous flameouts from the world of politics, sports, and celebrities provided countless hours of entertainment, overtime work for journalists, and taught millions of us the names of minor porn stars heretofore unknown (Ladies and gents... Jamie...

Like many couples we read the article by Elizabeth Weil in the New York Times Magazine. We find marriage challenging too. We tried a lot of therapy too. We said screw it.

Underrated and Overrated:

OVERRATED: Talking.
UNDERRATED: Yelling.
It feels much better to get it...

The internet is abuzz with backlash against The National Organization of Women's public stance against the proposed Bo-Tax. Judith Warner's December 3rd column on a New York Times blog debated the phenom of the backsliding of the women's movement which is having to to adjust to the realities...

"If our ups and downs in our marriage can help young couples sort of realize that good marriages take work ... It's unfair to project a kind of perfection that doesn't exist." First Lady , Michelle Obama, The New York Times, Nov 1 2009

I was so excited to read...

"If our ups and downs in our marriage can help young couples sort of realize that that good marriages take work... it's unfair to project a kind of perfection that doesn't exist." -- First Lady , Michelle Obama, in The New York Times, November 1st, 2009

I was so excited...

"We're mad as hell and we're not going to take it anymore!" That's the phrase news anchor Howard Beale intoned in Paddy Chayevsky's prescient satirical movie, Network, made back in 1973. Watch it now and you'd think it was filmed last week. Everyone is up in arms about...

Last night, as per usual since my pension plan became a 401 no-K at all, I was lying awake considering the possible scenarios for my families future. On the one hand, we could turn our backyard into a coffee plantation, sell our product to neighborhood frugalistas who are still p.c....

Yesterday brought exciting news for many Screen Actor Guild members who voted to elect candidates endorsed by and representing our interests who banded together to form the group Unite for Strength and to unseat board members affiliated with the faction known as Membership First. This vote for change could be...

Last week, the Congress approved an economic stimulus package that should send approximately $1,500 dollars to my family. Wow, what to do with it? My first thought was to sock it away, but I read that saving the money won't help stimulate the economy and I want to do my...

Seen, heard and observed on the picket line in Los Angeles as the Writers Guild of America strike enters its second week:

Too much enthusiasm: Writers picketing in Che Guevara T-shirts
Too little enthusiasm: Writers picketing with Blackberries and cell phones

Too much fun: Walking the line with everyone...