This life is a funny thing. Complex, full of twists and turns and disappointments, love and betrayal, all the stuff of the stories told that move us and shape us. Of all the things that come our way, a brutal betrayal is perhaps one of the things that is hardest...

I've decided that the Grammy Awards have become a wild, embarrassment of riches, music concert with a few awards given out in between, only when absolutely necessary. And I like it. Such diverse music, coming at you one right after the other (I pity those poor people making sure all...

I think it was the Starbuck's cup with hearts swirling around on it that put me over the edge. You see I've been incredibly loved in my life, in every way -- I'm talking about romantically -- but this is the first year since I was 15 that I haven't...

As I was reading a few things here and there in tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr., a famous line of his jumped out at me, it is the line where he dreams of a day in which his children, "will not be judged by the color of their skin...

"All serious daring starts from within." -- Eudora Welty

So it's pretty clear that all the people "in the know" seem to think that New Year's resolutions don't work. Deepak Chopra, the popular alternative self-help author, when asked if he thought there was a way for people to make their...

I have to confess I'm starting to see -- up close and a little too personal as I stare at a new mole that I'm sure wasn't there yesterday -- what Bette Davis meant when she uttered that now famous line, "Old age isn't for sissies." And I'm just on...

"We were vain and ignorant nor knew
that when we stabbed thy heart
it was our own real hearts we slew." -- Oscar Wilde

It's interesting when ideas that have been floating around in the ether and in your head start to pop up in the collective...

Just as the first part of Martin Scorsese's documentary on George Harrison, Living in the Material World, closed with "While My Guitar Gently Weeps," part two opens with a voice over of George singing, alone, just him and a guitar, a very sardonic version of his famous song:
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"All things must pass...all things must pass away." -- George Harrison

I just finished watching part one of Martin Scorsese's documentary on George Harrison, Living In The Material World. I fell willingly and lovingly down the looking glass hole of his journey, maybe it's because my life parallels that journey...