When I left my office last Friday at around 6:30, it was dark, as in night-time dark.  I wasn’t surprised or particularly depressed.  After all, I’d been dealing with the same experience for the past four months.               But something must have happened over the weekend, because when I left my office on Monday […]

              Well we all have a face that we hide away forever;               And we take it out and show ourselves when everyone has gone. -“The Stranger,” Billy Joel               Know thyself. -Socrates               These things I believe, and the world, for all its horrors, has left me unshaken. -Bertrand Russell (at the age of […]

              Do you have your Academy Award favorites selected?  The big night is this Sunday (at 4:00 PT on ABC).               I’ve made my picks, which I’ll share with you in a moment.  I do this every year, of course, as do so many of us who love the giant screen and the artistry that […]

“Love and marriage, love and marriage, go together like a horse and carriage. -Sammy Cahn               Amidst all the hoopla last weekend surrounding Valentine’s Day (and what would the florists in our economy do without it?), I was struck by how dramatically the celebration of love has changed in my lifetime.  Of course, a lot […]