Master of the Universe

Dear Mr. Wiener, Sorry I’m late to your pity party. I’ve been slogging through the fourth draft of my hour long speech for the National Speakers Association. I’m still an academy member, not officially a full fledged member, until I

The Oprah Syndrome

Hi, Boomers, You have to have lived on another planet last week to have missed Oprah’s closing show. Well, there were actually two last closing shows. Twenty-five years and thousands of guests and hundreds of hours of self-promotion with her

Writing As If No One Is Watching

Hi, Boomers, Writing is a solitary ritual. We think of rituals as something stemming from religion But the truth is that anything can be a ritual: dancing, playing music, working out, meditation, yoga, praying, taking holy communion, paying bills, cooking,

A Hard Day’s Night

Hi, Boomers, I’ve been absent from my blog. I apologize. It hasn’t been because I don’t love blogging. It’s because I’ve been in the midst of thinking about and then changing my life’s work. Sometimes I wake up in the

Anticipate the Positive

Hi, Boomers, I just came back from 2 days at the Los Angeles Festival of Books. This year it was held on USC campus instead of UCLA. It had been held at UCLA for more than 10 years. When I

Easter Parade

Hi, Boomers, I don’t quite know how to respond to Easter. I was raised a Catholic so I celebrated Easter every year until I married a Jew, had two sons and since then celebrated Passover. It seems ironic that I

I’ve Got The World On A String

Hi, Boomers, Do you remember when Sinatra played Madison Square Garden in 1974? He was singing in the middle of a boxing ring. Howard Cosell introduced Frank. The place was packed, alive and exciting. The great man’s voice was golden.

Losing Our Minds

Hi, Boomers, I want to share something with you. Something very important. It’s concerns our brains. The brain is a very complex organ, composed of approximately 100 billion neurons and each one of those neurons communicates with up to 10.000

Boomers R Us

Hi, Boomers, You are on my mind lately. I’m trying to write a speech about you/us. I’m not technically a boomer. I’m three years ahead of that curve, but I identify with the zeitgeist because who wants to be associated

Love in the Time of Sixty

Hi, Boomers, I’ve been thinking about love lately. I’ve been in and out of love a few times but I’m not currently in love so I’m giving myself permission to, well, think about love for this blog. (Okay, maybe for