Women talk about all kinds of things with each other… Women have gathered together throughout all history and across all cultures to talk.  To share.  To ask and to explain. To ease worries and to give comfort.  To whisper secrets and I hesitate to use this word, but gossip.  To laugh and giggle and sometimes cry. We talk about fashion, [...]

I’m a BIG believer in spending time with family and friends.  I’ve been so busy lately, I haven’t been able to do it as much as I’ve wanted to.  Last night I had dinner with 2 dear friends… Rosanna Sinel and Jonathan Joseph Peters. You know it’s a good night when… 1) You’re laughing non-stop 2) You’re bummed dinner is [...]

Remember that “she’s your lobster” episode of Friends back in the day? It’s one of my all-time favorites. I was always rooting for Ross and Rachel, and I was very happy they ended up together. (Sorry if that’s a spoiler for you, but I’m guessing that it’s okay to reveal, given that it has been 7 years since the show [...]

Do you have a set of true dependable friends? Best friends. The kind you used to buy those “Best Friend” necklaces with and break them up so you each had a piece. You know, the kind of friends who would drop anything for you.  The kind of friends who don’t ask, they just know.  The kind of friends that you [...]

Just before Thanksgiving, when still in the food shopping, preparation and house cleaning mode, I wrote about being drawn to the special drawer where I still keep many of my late mother-in-law’s special things. This drawer is the bottom right drawer of a white wicker 7-drawer bureau that belonged to Flo.  Barry and I bought the wicker bedroom set for [...]

These are words that I never quite expected to hear come from my lips – “When you get to be my age”… But they have. And they come not attached to wisdom or experience or knowledge, or any of those good things. These words, instead, come with the grief at having lost a friend. I know that death is a [...]

I am thinking about a beautiful friend with a broken heart… and wishing her peace…