"...and I'll tell you what you are." Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin from Philosophy of Taste For most of my adult life, since I moved...

The first week of our Peruvian adventure through the Amazon jungles, the monkeys, alligators, sloths, pink dolphins, bats, anacondas, and...

I’ve always had a fantasy about traveling down the Amazon River.  I don’t exactly know why, except I’m enthralled by animals, birds,...

He’ll not be mentioned by name in this piece.  I try not to use his name ever in daily activities, mostly because I feel a tiny heart...

Am I the only person over the age of 12 who doesn’t begin to understand Artificial Intelligence, or AI, doesn’t care, and is terrified of...

This review was the first piece I wrote for Life Magazine. The book became a huge best-seller and was the beginning of my journalistic...

I wrote this piece for Harper's Bazaar 51 years ago. What do you think? Still current? Still appropriate? Please comment below. MY...

Is there any doubt that our dogs own our hearts, utterly and completely?  If you’re like me, you never or hardly ever get mad at your...

It would be impossible to find any part of our cruise ship, called the JOURNEY, where you couldn’t find or order food within two minutes...

We only signed up for a cruise to Norway and the Arctic circle because two friends we met and really connected with on our last cruise,...

Between jobs, I worked as a legal secretary, one of the strangest occupations I’ve ever had. I would be called in by law firms when they...

Before I had a serious career of being a journalist followed many years later by becoming a musical theatre producer, I had a series of...

Is there ever enough to say about food, about my obsession with it, my thinking about what we’re going to cook for dinner each night for...

A memory from long ago. I was a journalist for LIFE MAGAZINE; they asked me to cover Tricia Nixon's wedding at the White House for a...

Over the course of fourteen summers, Tom and I along with several friends, took many weeklong bike trips. They were almost entirely in...

I had right knee replacement surgery six months ago. I had been avoiding it for two years. During those years, one day I could hardly...

If I could do it all over again, create my life from the top and be and do anything I wanted, I'd be a classical symphony conductor. I’m...

I have a favorite recurrent fantasy. It is the 19th century; I am a rich lady living in a splendid villa in the countryside of France. ...

I’ve wondered for years why everybody is so enchanted with celebrities. I include myself in that vast number. One could say, quite...

Our friends call my husband Tom either “Techno Tom” or “Toy Boy”. Techno Tom means he is obsessed with technology, he must buy the...