Celebrating Lillian

Hubert & Lillian Champion, Pine Mountain, Ga

  I’m writing this from a Starbucks in Columbus, Georgia. I made a very quick and very mysterious trip south. A secret mission of honor and happiness to help celebrate the 90th birthday of Lillian Champion. I met Lillian after she contacted me via email following the publication of some column about my father that [...]

Nora Ephron: God’s Side-Kick

Nora

Nora Ephron has died, and with her at his right hand, God will surely get some much-deserved comic relief. Ephron was  endearingly funny. If you are a female over 40 and have not yet read Ephron’s book I feel bad about my neck you need to rush out today and get a copy. Nora’s musings [...]

Not to be rude, but…

Whisper

Can we talk? I mean about something so personal you probably haven’t divulged the truth to your very best friend. I’m not talking about sex. Heck most of us know more about our friends’ sex lives than we ever needed or wanted to know. I’m talking about that thing that we often aren’t even honest about [...]