The European Summit for Global Transformation in Rotterdam calls!

My friend, Rebecca Self, personifies that which she promotes: leadership as a way of being, and "If not me, who?" It wouldn't be too far off to say she's Rebecca Self-less. A self-described "catalyst" for leadership, Dr. Self has been...

An Open Letter to Roman Polanski:

Dear Mr. Polanski,

I'm sending you this letter, even though you don't know me from Eve. As I write this, we've just received news that you're open to house arrest for your 1977 statutory rape sentence. That's a great idea, but I've got...

Hard-hearted and soft-brained must be pre-existing conditions for some health insurance executives and state legislators. For battered women (and presumably children) in D.C., Idaho, Mississippi, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota and Wyoming, state laws allow insurance carriers to deny coverage to victims of abuse because...

Satan's voice must ring prettier than mine right now. I woke up from having inhaled smoke all night from the burning mountains above my home in Altadena on Monday, August 31. Indeed, when I said good morning to my husband, I sounded like Linda Blair's possessed character in The Exorcist....

Norwegians consider President Barack Obama to be a right-wing leader. I kid you not. My "people," the Norwegians, are out in front on so many social issues that even conservatives in Norway think Obama is too conservative. Nonetheless, when my husband and I were in Norway at the end...

Please join me in a movement to have August 26 declared a national voting holiday. The date is important because it commemorates the day women finally won the vote in the US: August 26, 1920. Besides, there are no holidays in August, no other holidays celebrate peaceful non-violent social change,...

Traitors to white male privilege, there are quite a few unsung men of feminist values in the world. So why are the unsung not more "sung"? The patriarchy is a system that is a "beast" and doesn't reward the boys that bite the hand that feeds them. In a glaring...

Heartache, fear, and guilt is flooding Southern California because of the brutal kidnapping, robbery and murder of Los Angeles high school student Lily Burk. "If only, if only, if only..."

What I'm about to say in this column could possibly be interpreted as laying guilt or blame upon either...

Malcolm Gladwell's latest book, Outliers: The Story of Success puts to rest many of the diehard notions we all have about who succeeds, who doesn't and why. Gladwell calls icons of success "outliers." I call them "Folks With Penises," people statistically more apt to have been born male. I guess...

"Open your eyes!" the Iranian man screams in grief and desperation. I think of the deep love his sorrow expresses. His daughter, Neda, dies instantly with her wailing father bent over her bloody face and limp body. I can almost smell the blood and heat of the moment. I can't...

"You should contact Oprah!" I'd be a rich woman if I had a dollar every time someone said that to me. "Brilliant! I've never thought of that. I'll just call her up this second," I think sarcastically. But I just nod and say, "Call her for me, won't you?" Of...

"Horrible! Why this script is just horrible!" I first thought after I read "The Commune." And also terrific -- as in terrifying -- in so many ways.

When you think about it, many of us human beings love paying other people to scare us witless. Roller coasters...