Deep in a rustic canyon, tucked away in the bedroom of his beautiful glass home, wrapped tightly in a hospice hospital bed, buried behind the damage of another stroke, my father is dying.

His muted dark eyes stare out at me full of undelivered communications and I...

A very early, very different, rough first-draft (unintended for anyone's eyes) was accidentally posted by the HuffingtonPost. This happened for a few minutes on Nov. 2. The official posting of Ms. Wieder's article has always been dated 11/04/2009.

In case you haven't read the "official stories" or...

Many years ago when I was still banging my life against the unhealthy routine of multi-tasking as both the Editor in Chief of a national news magazine and the Editorial Director of two other magazines and a book company-- I went to Hawaii. My entire life changed in the...

My favorite sight during the protests of California's passage of Proposition 8 (eliminating the right of same-sex couples to marry) was a youthful looking guy wearing his nastiest face and carrying a sign that said, "No More Mr. Nice Gay!"

Suddenly California's streets were full of "kids" who felt...

When was the last time you watched 48 Hour Mystery? Or Dateline?

While once these television "news magazines" hung their shows on relatively important, topical subject matter, over recent years they've gone more the "fibers-in-the-carpet," "no woman should ever die that way" route. Gone are the hard-hitting interviews and investigative...

You'd think there were enough equal rights to go around!

Today could have been a truly great day of celebration for me. Like so many people in America, my heart too could be bursting with the joy and pride of seeing my country finally rise to its own great occasion:...

Nothing is real in America unless you've seen it on TV or the net, heard it on the radio, or read about it somewhere. Even if you were there yourself, it rarely seems real until you can point to the tube, the website, or open the morning paper and say,...