I guess women newscasters have to be beautiful. Bad news doesn’t seem so bad if it’s delivered by a young blonde who looks like she should be in a beauty pageant. Maybe they should be wearing bathing suits. Men like to look at young, sexy women. I like to look at other women, too, at […]
Views of
Naughty
Men
Even normal guys–sons, boyfriends, husbands, even fathers—think about fooling around with somebody new. Even President Jimmy Carter confessed in a Playboy interview, When woman look provocative, men look. And lust. And whatever. What’s a girlfriend or wife to do? First, let’s reform porn. Introducing Granny Porn. Only women with an AARP card would be licensed […]
Mother’s
Day
For
Adult Women
only
Don’t get excited. This isn’t about porn. (I’m working on that one.) It’s about how women who are “over the hill” (or as I prefer to call us “veterans of life”) are supposed to look. According to the fashion gurus — conservative and bland. Who decides who’s “over the hill” anyway? Men who are over […]
the
M
words
I grew up in Manhattan on the upper East Side. Years later Jackie O.’s condo was a couple of blocks away. Ritzy, huh! But the block I lived on–East 65th street and Madison Avenue—the apartment I lived in– small and dark above my grandparents’ stationery store—not ritzy. The fancy ladies who came into my grandparents’ store […]
Thinking about
the Ephron Sisters
The Ephron sisters optioned two of my books several years ago, which inspired their off- Broadway hit, “Love, Loss, and What I Wore.” This was truly amazing since I have never inspired anyone, especially my family, particularly my children. I, too, have a sister. Like me, she lives in New Jersey. But unlike me, she makes one […]
My
Underarm
Chronicles
I’ve read shopping is therapy. Who doesn’t need therapy these days. So I’m off to Walmart. But I read that Walmart only hires old people who they underpay. Did they correct that? Or is that another store? Or is that the store that won’t support Planned Parenthood? Or did they correct that? I can’t keep up with […]
DON’T
BE
SILENT
Sexual Harassment—in Hollywood, in the media, in Wall Street, in politics —everywhere it seems. Who do these creeps think they are? Where did they get the messages that they can do whatever they want to women, whenever they want? Look at them. They’d never be mistaken for Cary Grant or George Clooney, as if it […]