(Note: Today’s blog is dedicated to my goddaughter, Alexandra McGrath, who graduated.from UCSB yesterday. I love you, Alex!) Congratulations to the Class of 2009 college graduates! This is an extraordinary time that is rich with newly acquired wisdom and knowledge out of which you can now truly begin to invent your own life. You have…

Wow…the news just came in that President Barack Obama has nominated Judge Sonia Sotomayor for appointment to the Supreme Court. Perhaps the tides are beginning to turn again and there is hope once more for greater equality and justice in our country. For those of you who are unfamiliar with Sonia Sotomayor, she’s a Puerto…

When I was a little girl, it went without saying that my father and my sisters would somehow find a way to buy my mother a bottle of Chanel No.5 for Mother’s Day. It was a tradition. Some years it was a very small bottle or the toilet water version, but only once can I…

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