Mad Men has started its strange new late-60s season while The Good Wife concluded its fourth with great Florrick flourish. The Red...

I'd rather discuss: 1) Ben Affleck's beautifully awkward speech after Argo was named best picture. 2) Jennifer Lawrence'...

Here's some salve to apply to the wounds left behind from the odiously cruel Downton Abbey season finale on Sunday. (I mean, seriou...

Breaking news for my  Mad Men peeps: On April 7 it shall begin. It'll be a two-hour extravaganza on AMC. Season 6 of Mad M...

The New York Times' Gail Collins has a great piece out today which puts Betty Friedan's landmark 1963 book The Feminine Mystique...

My publisher, Wyatt-MacKenzie Publishing , has just listed my forthcoming novel, Mortified: A Novel About Oversharing  -- yep, you read th...

Cheerio and good day! I trust you all had a Happy Christmas and a bloody good time of it on New Year's . . . aw, forget it . . . there...

One of my favorite Boston Globe columnists, Joanna Weiss, invited me to participate in a very cool thing called a "blog hop," w...

I have missed you, my blog-reading peeps, missed writing and musing about all the latest doings in politics and pop culture. During my ...

The Good Liked the powerful speeches -- particularly the you-go-girl optics -- given by South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley , former Sec...

Big kisses to the folks at PBS for this tribute to the great Julia Child. Love . Makes me want to watch Julie & Julia . Again. And ...

Olympic Opening Ceremonies : With the exception of the Queen-James Bond thing, I generally disliked not only the London Olympics' Openin...

I spent the past week on a Cape Cod family vacation where I swam, biked (rode a bike for the first time in many, many years), enjoyed sunset...

I'll be taking a blogging break. But don't despair . . . I'll be back in this space next week -- Tuesday, July 17 -- to tackle p...

She was a reporter, essayist, author, blogger, director, producer and Oscar nominated screenwriter. Plus she was sharply funny. But to me,...

  In a complicated, highly anticipated ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court, by a 5-4 vote, declared that the massive federal ...