second lives club

Those are the first two words from one of my favorite authors, May Sarton, in one of my favorite books, “Journal of a Solitude". ...

Confusion! It’s important to keep up appearances in our second lives.  It may require a different regimen than before; as we move on i...

Last week after less than 100 days in office, New York City schools chancellor Cathie Black lost her job. During her brief but embattled ter...

I have several friends who are writing books…..their first books. One is giving me her manuscript to read soon. She won’t tell me what it’s...

This past weekend I went to an auction preview, a kind of retirement sale for the dean of American decorators and a man who loved bold color...

  I may not have mentioned this before but I’m starting my own business after decades of working for a number of corporations.  It’s e...

I n the last years of the last century, I used to read only female authors --and more often than not living female authors. I was searching...

Is this not one of the most gratifying photos of a self-fulfilled woman ever?  It’s our never-tiring Secretary of State yesterday on her way...

A THOUGHT for March 14 from Offerings: Buddhist Wisdom for Every Day by Danielle and Olivier Follmi: We may become aware that worldly c...

Meredith Hooper!  Who?  She’s the mother of Tom Hooper who won the Best Director Oscar last Sunday for “The King’s Speech.”  Considering al...

I don't know if you know but in an addition to writing this blog, I am also working on a book about the second lives of women. Those liv...

I helped a friend last week with an auction to raise money for the non-profit she runs.  In fact I’ve got another one to attend tonight orga...