second lives club

When we started Second Lives Club, one of our goals was to destigmatize aging. At first we couldn’t believe that we ourselves had crossed t...

Someone recently gave me the galleys of a novel that comes out next spring called “ The Red Book ”. The reason for this unanticipated gi...

I'm thinking of joining the Wall Street rally this week.  Something about it just seems right.  Maybe it's taking me back to our ...

What’s in my closet for fall?  I’ve attended Fashion’s Night Out ; was early to the Jill Sander (+J) designer launch at Uniqlo ; was one o...

Is she or isn't she? That's one of the questions. This week's New York Magazine reprises the famous--or maybe infamous-...

Several months ago we asked some of our followers or some whom we wanted as followers to give us their opinions of our blog. We promise...

I’ve just returned from the opening night of the Willem de Kooning retrospective at MOMA in NYC. It’s an amazingly huge exhibit with ove...

Ten years ago next Sunday, I boarded a jet scheduled to leave JFK airport at 7A.M. for Atlanta where, as the editor of Real Simple, I was g...

Photo by Svetlana Blasucci This table sits in a dining room facing the Atlantic Ocean in an old Victorian house on the Jersey shore. It...

Anyone who knows me knows that I love India. I have traveled to the subcontinent five times in the last seven years: twice for weddings (one...

. . . watch Gloria: In Her Own Words The HBO documentary of Gloria Steinem’s life and career as an activist and feminist airs for the s...

As the jobless rate shows little improvement, more and more of us are starting and managing our own businesses from home, which can leave yo...