Darryle Pollack | I never signed up for this...
confessions of a cluttered mind
I want to write about him; but I know my words will fail to capture the essence of Bob Beers. His words would be so much better. And funnier. He was brilliant, erudite, articulate—part curmudgeon/part newsman in the mold of Edward R. Murrow. If he read that, he’d probably laugh and say he was more [...]
Remember S.W.A.K.? For anyone too young to know– that’s what you wrote next to the lipstick kiss on the back of letters to your boyfriend. (Not that anyone writes letters anymore.) S.W.A.K. Sealed With a Kiss. Actually the lips in this image belong to a man—one of hundreds of people persuaded to put on lipstick [...]
I was too young to realize how lucky I was; so lucky that I literally fell into the perfect career for me, at the perfect time; in the perfect place. Miami is a great news town. My TV station, one of the oldest in the industry, dominated the market. It was truly the golden age [...]
A week ago I was sitting in a canvas chair under a tent surrounded by a circle of women. We did what women do when they get together—they talk. And talk. And talk. (And drink wine. We did that, too.) It sounds simple. It was. It sounds ordinary. It wasn’t. This was Creative Alliance, a gathering [...]
When I had breast cancer, I never would have believed a day would come when I’d say cancer brought me any rewards. But it has. One of those was knowing Susan Niebur. Since this is breast awareness month, I should maybe mention that neither of us had any. Susan was a rare survivor who, like [...]
You’d think a creative mind would be a blessing. And it is. Most of the time. But it also can go in the opposite direction. I wouldn’t say a creative mind can be a curse, but I would definitely say it can be a challenge. At least for me. I have a lot of creative ideas. [...]
Carolyn was one of those rare gorgeous women who didn’t seem aware of how beautiful she was. We met when my daughter Alli was in first grade, and became friends with Carolyn’s identical twin daughters. They were just like their mom–blonde and beautiful, with hearts of gold. Carolyn was going through a tough time–divorced, raising [...]
I was clueless. I had been blogging for one week when I arrived at BlogHer ’08. I didn’t understand the terms describing the sessions, didn’t know I needed a ticket beforehand, didn’t know that even banging on the door wouldn’t get me in. I also didn’t realize I was an outlier. Not just at BlogHer [...]
July 4, 2012. Exactly four years ago today I started this blog. Which makes this what some people call my fourth blogiversary. I couldn’t let this day pass without some notice of that since there are very few things I’ve stuck to for this long. I started on July 4 for a very specific reason; [...]
It’s impossible to take a bad picture of a Carmel sunset. The iPhone is now part of the ritual along Carmel beach. It can get obsessive; so I try to limit how many I share. And with all due respect to the power of Facebook, can you really share the beauty of a sunset via the internet? Much [...]
After becoming a writer, artist, TV journalist, mother and breast cancer survivor----I realize nothing turns out the way we expect. So I blog about handling the big and little things — with humor, humanity, and hope.
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