Inspiration
On Saturday afternoon, I watched Marley and Me on pay-per-view in the solitude of my bedroom. It took about four hours to watch the movie what with the many interruptions of phone calls as well as questions from my husband and son that ran the gamut from “where do we keep three-way bulbs” to “have you seen my sandals?” But here’s the thing – I don’t go to movie theaters – one of my [many] idiosyncrasies, so tolerance (not always evident) for interruptions has to be practiced. This idiosyncrasy is likely spawned from the 1960′s when I came home from school, turned on the...
Read MoreThe Sanford Marriage: Vogue v. Rogue?
Who really knows exactly what happened in the Sanford marriage? Probably only that hapless fly on the wall. According to both Mark and Jenny Sanford, difficulties were brewing long before the governor’s emotional and public meltdown. Romantics might argue that he really did find his soul mate in Maria Belen Chapur and finally got to a breaking point where neither his marriage nor his political career mattered as much as the woman he truly loved. Publicists and campaign managers who were looking forward to his 2012 run for the presidential nomination might contend that putting romance aside...
Read MoreDiane Schuler’s Demons
If only the dead could speak. Instead, as in the case of Diane Schuler who killed eight people including herself on the Taconic Parkway last weekend, the living are speaking for her. Clearly, they didn’t know all of her. They say what people frequently say when interviewed after a tragedy, “She was a lovely woman. A devoted wife and mother. A wonderful aunt.” Perhaps all those definitions of her are true. Perhaps it was what she harbored inside, what she didn’t tell them, what she was afraid to confront in herself that ended in disaster. What perhaps she didn’t even know about...
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