My heart is full. Twenty years ago, you made me a mother. The years have flown by with bewildering speed, and they've inched forwa...

Sophie fought from the very first moment. I can't count the number of EEGs that we've put her through, but this might top them a...

She drinks wine while cooking dinner. I slapped a Jimi Hendrix stamp on the mortgage payment this morning and felt cheered. Ta...

So, it's Women's History Month, I think, or something like that. I'm not one for the holiday marker on a day. It's enoug...

I took a walk today and looked at Icelandic* poppies sprinkled everywhere, some still with fuzzy heads bowed and others with papery peta...

Quick, take a picture of that! I said to Oliver when we pulled up to a stoplight before entering the Target parking garage. Why, Mom? ...

I've had two very long conversations with my father recently when we've discussed, among other things, the new PBS four-part spe...

We must become intimate with anger to clear the way to our connectiveness, to our vulnerability and an aliveness to everything. In the ...

As we drove around the shitty today, I listened to Oliver chattering endlessly about the cars we passed, and I nodded my head whil...

photo by Sir Cecil Beaton, 1938 If you squint, don't I sort of, kind of, look like Gertrude? I even have a poodle! My Alice B. Tok...

Skeletal and labyrinthine Pharmacoresistant: (from Dictionary.com) Did you mean  pharmaco- ? More suggestions: Epileptogenesis:...

Is Sophie still taking the same amount of Charlotte's Web, and how much does she take? Is it working? Is it a miracle? Do you thi...

Oliver and I went for a very long walk today in Santa Monica. It was a blustery day and incredibly beautiful. He actually skateboarded wh...

He dressed for Hopkins that morning and sat alone at the Greek cafe in Beverly Hills, reading of Jackself and thwarted passion, the ice...