LEND ME YOUR EARS “Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears,” so saidMarc Antony. People want to be heard, but we don’t always do a good job of listening. When you have a conversation with someone, are you deciding what to say next while they’re...
TAKING RISKS Back in 1993, I received a phone call from an agent who asked me if I wanted to audition to write Diana Ross’s memoir. I didn’t understand what he meant. Audition? That had never come up before. He went on to explain that she had fired her writer and...
BLACKOUT Waiting for the lights to come backon. Waiting to hear the whirring of my printer warming up. The phones ringing. The buzz of the refrigerator. The sound of ice dropping into the tray. The pilot light firing up the burners on my stove. The annoying voices of...
EXPECT THE BEST When I was a young ballet dancer in training, we were aboutto have a recital. We were doing a version of Alice in Wonderland and I wanted to be Alice. My hair was long and blonde like hers, I was the right age and I imagined wearing a blue pinafore...
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