Here's a thing about the death of your mother or anyone else you love: You can't anticipate how you'll feel afterward. People will tell you a few may be close to right none exactly right.
Don't expect anyone else to support you. Maybe you'll have a trust fund....
You can figure out who you were by which movies you loved when.
You can map your life through your favorite movies and no two people's maps...
The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are...
Don't waste time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead sometimes you're behind.
For some Chicago expats food is the medicine that blunts the pain of...
A line from one of my 1997 columns - 'Do one thing every day that scares you'...
I couldn't have foreseen all the good things that have followed my mother's...
When we are dealing with death we are constantly being dragged down by the...
I start thinking about life after death. I've got to quit thinking about it...
What we think of as our sensitivity is only the higher evolution of terror in...
So here is one of my theories on happiness: we cannot know if we have lived a...
I'm not on the run from anything and I'm not at all clear about what I'm...
Planning to play: that's what saving for retirement is today - and it is...
I was in two episodes playing Christopher Reeve's character's emissary. They...
The death penalty is being applied in the United States as a fatal lottery.
As a reward for their efforts however those early Christians were beaten...
I think that much of this was running in background as I contemplated whether...