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She said it all. Or most of it all. And what she didn't say or write we will never again hear. At least not the way Nora would have said it or written it.

It was amazing, her last two books said so many things that I might have said......

Sarah Palin has recently stated that she believes that she could beat Obama in 2012.

I would have said that was ridiculous until I saw that her daughter Bristol is now heading to the finals in this coming Monday's Dancing With The Stars.

As Brandy hung her head and cried...

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It's difficult for me to explain how I, a songwriter for 40 years of my life, am now equally, if not more excited to write today about my painting.

It's odd. I had no idea that I had any real talent...

With only 17 days left before Christmas many of us are racing around malls, department stores and our favorite shopping haunts in our local cities, buying, buying, buying for the ones we love, the ones we want to love us, and the ones we have to gift with the obligatory...

When David Foster and I sat down to write the song "Thankful," it was written for a Thanksgiving special that never came to be, but Josh Groban liked it so much that he decided to include it in his first Christmas record, which was just recently released, titled "Noel."

I...

This week did not go as smoothly as others. I always wake up grateful for the life I have been given but there are days, sometimes weeks, that are more stressful than others.
My mother, who will be eighty-six in December, has been living with my husband and I...

For some reason I had a hard time deciding which of two websites that I visit would be of most interest to you.

At last I decided since I had spent about five or six hours this week learning and spending time on their site, I would introduce you to...

Gossip websites and blogs have become must-have acquisitions for mainstream media companies. AOL is the proud owner of TMZ.com, which welcomes a healthy 1.6 million visitors every month, and Yahoo! acquired celebrity news site OMG.com in June this year. Some web commentators have accused CBS of jumping on...

As I write this column I am sitting in my mother's hospital room in Santa Monica. My mom is going on 86 years old, and I was thinking today as I drove to the hospital how glad I am I that nine years ago I taught her how to "go...

So many of us strive for things outside ourselves to define our happiness only to find that having achieved what we thought would make us happy, we are still left unfulfilled. There is a part of us that still feels empty. Some of us stay on that wheel for all...

From a songwriter who has a new Josh Grobin song...and it's not called "Goggle!" but "Thankful."

Yes, there is a little self-promotion in there, but sometimes I actually do leave the computer to write a song. And when that song finds it's way to a record I...

First I want to thank everyone who made comments and posted some wonderful sites of their own. Here are two of my favorites posted last week by you--they both have made it into my personal bookmarks.

Stephen.com a site not unlike last weeks Jackson Pollack site. This one...

If there were a "Internet Addicts Anonymous", I would really have to think long and hard deciding whether I would or would not join.

Having been online since the late 1980's I used a service called CompuServe, which was before AOL, Netscape, Yahoo and Google had been born, and the...

Have you noticed that after each Democratic debate, Hillary's numbers rise in the national polls?

The reason is simple.

She enters center stage, in the brightest most fluorescent color possible on the color wheel. She is aglow in bright coral, bright orange, bright...

As a kid growing up, I -and I'm sure many of you-- lied to my parents about something, only to later be found out.

I was told, like most kids, not to do that again. But most of all, my parents tried to teach me that what I did was...

For as long as I can remember fear has played a significant part in my life. As a child one of the things I remember most was being afraid.

How a child feels fear at such an early age is somewhat of an enigma to me as we are...