When I was a kid I took 'The Brady Bunch' and 'The Partridge Family' very seriously. It was a world to me in the same way that the Greek myths would have been had I read them. You know Marcia is Athena and Mr. Brady is Zeus.
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I turned 54 this year and I find myself feeling like I'm in a bit of a race...
If you think of a work of fiction as a kind of scale model of the world then...
Whatever your supposed politics are - left right - if you put it in a human...
A John Updike is a once-in-a-generation phenomenon if that generation is...
The best thing that ever happened to me is that nothing happened in writing....
It's funny with fiction - once you cut something it hasn't happened anymore.
The word 'funny' is a bit like the word 'love' - we don't have enough words...
The universal human laws - need love for the beloved fear hunger periodic...
While Free Choice Vouchers didn't fulfill my vision of a health care system...
The importance of human life should be universally respected - and that...
More than any other setting - more than battlefields or boardrooms or a...
But I am Armenian and I understand what it is to lose a country and lose a...
And whereas women had to fight to find their way into the workforce men are...
I would like a food/lifestyle show. We're not sure what that is yet. I want...
My parents did a great job raising me and my two sisters. We all graduated...
When I'm home the heart and soul of our family is in the kitchen. Growing up...