In a way, Lindsay Lohan reminds me of myself and some of the kids I grew up with in New York, minus the fame, the common parents, and the Long Island address. Like many kids who grow up too fast, she did it all before the age of 21. When I met ...
Like most people, I love the sea. Though I often fear what lies beneath"more so now than ever, what with all the pollution, oil spills, and cruise ships. Now that summer is here I find myself daydreaming about bathing in a cool blue sea ...
I remember a particular conversation I had with a boyfriend of two years during the second week of our relationship. He was unhappy because I turned down his invitation one night to attend my weekly card game. I remember saying to myself: there is ...
I was less than eager to discover the Arab world. My previous experiences in Egypt and Turkey put me off visiting countries where Western woman are demeaned. Nevertheless, I boarded a plane last weekend headed for Beirut. I figured it was a safe ...
By most accounts, kids who attend Harvard have some sort of exceptional ability. Of the ten or twenty Harvard graduates I know, this is true down the line. Furthermore, most of them have been successful at a relatively young age in the fields of ...
Amateur philanderers like Bill Clinton, Elliot Spitzer, Tiger Woods, and Jesse James have reduced themselves, their wives, and their lovers to widespread ridicule. These men might take lessons from my father, who has been obliging eager women ...
New York seems to be full of people who go to shop openings and social events just to be seen. I don"t much care for these parties because I would rather see my friends privately, and have an actual conversation, than feign interest in something ...
“Isn’t it just like a man to not let the woman talk?” Yes, the most riveting face-off of the evening came early—when producer Elinor Burkett wrestled the microphone from director-producer Roger Ross Williams and uttered the ...
An invitation to a Vanity Fair dinner is not a bad one to have, though the very thought of having to communicate with famous and fabulous people makes me twitchy. Hollywood types really only like powerful people, and few of them are capable of ...
Most people told me I wouldn"t be the same after my first trip to the Subcontinent. India changes you, they all said. Well, I"ve been now, and India was not quite the revelation I was expecting. The culture has been over-exposed. The ...
I have come to see why the value of a woman is her femininity. The ability to serve, please, and preside, without castrating the gents, is close to divine. For instance: "Tis the week before Christmas, and a light snow is falling in London. ...
