The Four Quadrant Movie: Secretariat

10.06.2010

The hero is a stallion, the heroine is a housewife with four kids and the villain is a mouthy man who gets his comeupance. If that’s not a Four Quadrant movie, I don’t know what is.

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What The Stars Told Oprah

10.04.2010

Have you been to ThirdAge.com yet?  This is my latest–okay, and first–article for them… When Teri Hatcher got home from a recent Desperate Housewives photo shoot, what struck her most after she’d washed her face and hair was the difference between what she saw in the mirror, the person she knows herself to be, and [...]

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The Weekly Rant: Little White Lies and the Unvarnished Truth

09.29.2010

Did I miss the Weekly Rant last week? Sorry about that.  But I’m back, and this week I’m ranting about the white lies you tell relative strangers and the ones you shouldn’t tell your relatives. We all tell white lies. Of course we do. They are the grease that keeps the engine of social intercourse [...]

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A Death in the Family

09.27.2010

…when it happened, her death came as a surprise and I was so unprepared in so many ways.

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The Runaway Bride Syndrome: Accommodating Yourself Out Of Existence

09.23.2010

“Entitled,” he said, with disdain. And, you know what, I am entitled–to a life of comfort and satisfaction as defined by me. Of course, that wasn’t the way he meant it.

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I’m Not Selling My Soul–Just Trying to Keep MidLifeBloggers Going

09.19.2010

I’m stuck in a house worth about $150K less than what I paid for it in a neighborhood that is superb for families with small children, but for those of us who are single women of a certain age–not so much.

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The Weekly Rant: American Justice & A Jury of Your Peers

09.12.2010

Don’t, under any circumstances, commit a crime, because the last thing you want is for your fate to be in the hands of a “jury of your peers.”

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Calling It Quits: the making of a movie

09.07.2010

I now had a character, that’s me. I had a premise, the search for happiness. And I had a character arc, unhappy to happy (or lets call a sense of well being). In short, I had my film. And I was off — with the enthusiasm of a kid.

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It’s Not PMS, It’s You! Interview with the author

08.27.2010

“…for every woman who ever pulled her hair out trying to explain–for the 46th time–the importance of putting the toilet seat down, for Christ’s sake, or that burping the national anthem after every meal is not a constitutional right…

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The Weekly Rant: Raley’s, BelAir, and NobHill markets

08.23.2010

Strip away all the hoohah, the pink and the blue, the booties and the pacifiers, and what you’ve got is a world in which women are valued for what their ovaries do and their wombs produce.

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