Francesca Biller-Safran

As a half-Jew, I have heard first, second and seventeenth that we are at times thought of as anxious, neurotic and compulsive about things Gentiles would never ever give a second thought.

Can you imagine Clint Eastwood worrying whether it's more important should his mother attend her local socialist...

Like a lot of people today, you often probably feel anxious, nervous, scattered, overtired, manic, and stressed . . . and those are the good days.

Sure, there are moments when you may pause for a half-second with your vendi-trendy coffee and notice a bird in flight or the color...

Woody Allen, worshiped by some and annoying to others for fearing everything but doing most of them anyway once said, "You can live to be a hundred and give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred."

On the other hand he commented,...

Ironically, the most thunderous vitriol about health care being spewed at town hall meetings across the country is both raged and waged by those already gainfully insured who can't bare the thought of sharing the pot with the poor and uninsured.

While health care is in need of radical reform...

If Camelot is no longer, than what is this steady lion's roar still echoing the chorus of democratic integrity and robust might of the greatest Senator this country will ever know?

With the beautiful Kennedy brothers now all at rest, the high principles, steady hand and well-earned sweat of their...

"Don't spend a lot of time with old people, they just make you feel older," my 96-year old grandmother told me at our latest luncheon.

After finishing off a large Caesar Salad and her second glass of Ice Tea, she stood and pointed to her new three inch caramel-colored Ferragamo...

It's been more than a month since Michael Jackson's demise and still no burial, cremation, resting place, or any manifestation of the pop psyche term "closure" for this fallen King of Pop.

What is unequivocally true is that the news media has continued their relentless, wretched assault against Jackson's very...

1. Always have what I call the U.G.B. handy, which stands for Unwanted-Guest-Basket. This way you can yell at your uninvited guest through your locked door (of course!) and wait three minutes while you throw miscellaneous clutter from each room into the basket. Remember unexpected guests are often nosy...

From the very instant we learned of Michael Jackson's death, and before he was finally allowed to rest in peace, if only for a brief moment, the leering lens of media coverage on his life has relentlessly focused on the bazaar, freak-like image that the press has assured...

I have to be honest with y'all just why I'm stepping down as Governor. I'm in love with a moose and realized it when I just couldn't blast him to pieces with my new Smith and Wesson. Alaska and my Russian neighbors will just have to understand. You're invited to...

As sure as the sun will rise and set tomorrow during Michael Jackson's fairy tale-like, surreal and massively-orchestrated funeral, thousands of fans around the world will claim he is not really dead after all.

Whether or not he will be displayed Snow-Whitish within a glass coffin lead by pristine white...

As sure as the sun will rise and set tomorrow during Michael Jackson's fairy tale-like, surreal and massively-orchestrated funeral, thousands of fans around the world will claim he is not really dead after all.

Whether or not he will be displayed Snow-Whitish within a glass coffin lead by pristine white...

Breaking News: Palin's Remarks at Second Press Conference not yet Broadcast

I have to be honest with y'all just why I'm stepping down as Governor. I'm in love with a moose and realized it when I just couldn't blast him to pieces with my new Smith and Wesson. Alaska and...

Fireworks this Fourth of July will glow brighter for many African-Americans who may not have not truly felt the authentic, honest brand of patriotism they now feel since Barack Obama's election.

This may be just another holiday for some to get together while viewing the bombs bursting with glare; Americana...

As a person of mixed race, I have had many blacks since Obama's election confide in me with comments along these lines, "We finally have a brother in the White House, and that's more than I ever thought would happen."

An African-American friend who manages a local grocery store still...

The passing of Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett has hit us near-baby boomers and full-on baby boomers with a rock and roll punch to the gut we weren't ready for.

We were the generation who was going to live forever, immortalized with youthful hip-ness, and mastered knowing how to be...

One of the greatest lessons a child can learn in order to grow into a healthy and happy adult is that they are indeed not the center of the universe, whether it be the universe of their parents, or that of their own making.

A generation ago, children felt loved...

With the deaths of Farrah Fawcett, Michael Jackson and David Carradine, it feels as though a large part of the 1970's has died right along with them, making those of us old enough to remember them feel as though a part of our culture and childhood is gone forever.

Barely...

Fathers matter more than ever, and anyone who doubts their importance has inevitably endured life without one.

Even feminist Gloria Steinem said, "Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father."

The politically correct modern notion is that as long as a child is healthy and loved, it...

Fathers matter more than ever, and anyone who doubts their importance has inevitably endured life without one.

Even feminist Gloria Steinem said, "Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father."

The politically correct modern notion is that as long as a child is healthy and loved, it...