Aging revealed

Death by a Thousand Cuts

Last week I peed in my pants. Not leaked a little, but flat out peed. TMI? Don’t move on from this so fast. It happens to both men and women. Why do you think they have all those rows of pads in the drug store?

Releasing Your Former Life

How to Live Happily in Covid-19 Times

One of the Vulnerable

As one of the vulnerable, I’ve been stuck in the house now for six weeks, learning every detail about the Coronavirus. I have seen only about half a dozen people who are part of my quarantine barrier: people with whom I walk my dogs outside in the morning, my roommate, my barista and the…

Why Education is Everything

I began working during the Mad Men era, and because I am still working, I’ve seen a lot of changes in America between the 1940s, the earliest time I really remember, and the present.

America in the Forties: Immigrants and Aspiration

In a Special Class

“Can I ask you a question, goddess?” My foster daughter Amanda was at the sink with me in the ladies’ room at Burger King. We…

2018 is the year artificial intelligence came into its own, again raising the question of how soon we will arrive at the singularity, or the time when general artificial intelligence produces machines that are superior to human beings. In dystopian movies and novels, this is also known as the coming of our robot overlords. In the movie “Her,” a poor…

Shedding the Body

Yesterday I received the gift of being present in Denver (by coincidence) on a day my former husband Jesse Choguill was in the process of shedding his body. Clearly he’s finished with this body, which has failed him, but his spirit and personality are far from finished. They shone through the…

True Entrepreneurs Are Ageless

I couldn’t have worked with entrepreneurs for the past twenty years if I didn’t admire them. Of course I do. I admire anyone who has the guts to go out and create something out of nothing.