Robin Williams is dead. Depression is alive. He made us laugh. Now he makes us cry. Robin Williams must have been crying too before he ended his life. We are fascinated with celebrity. We live in the fantasy worlds created on stage and screen. We identify with famous...
Have you ever done something you thought you could not do? I did yesterday. On March 18, 2013 our beloved cat, Cadenza, had to be euthanized. All of us knew it was “time” – even Cadenza knew. He had put up a brave and long battle with his final illness. He never...
For many months, my husband and I had been planning a a special vacation. Due to unforeseen circumstances, not illness, we were forced to cancel the trip. We plan to reschedule it. When this became apparent, I needed to cancel our flight reservations. This meant...
In 1966 William J. Baumol and William G. Bowen, two distinguished economists at Princeton University (Bowen was subsequently President of that Institution), wrote a monumental book called Performing Arts: An Economic Dilemma. The year of its publication does not...
If you are anything like me, you have been horrified and mystified by the disappearance of Malaysian Airline Flight 370 on March 8. How could a Boeing 777 jetliner carrying 239 people just disappear from the sky about an hour after take-off? With no apparent signals...
I was driving around town recently and gradually realized that I was not as aware of the ice and snow that had been coating our roads for several weeks. Previously, I had been driving defensively on our treacherous streets, fearful of skidding – or of being skidded...
