I smiled this week at the intense reaction to the scientific study that said too frequent mammograms cause unnecessary stress and can be safely reduced. It was a beautiful smile, too. The mostly straight ivories look like rows of surfboards left to bleach in the summer sun. It’s a contagious sort of smile. I’ve found people nearly always smile back when I smile at them. In fact, the only ...
President Barack Obama is returning from an overseas diplomatic mission in which he’s now being criticized for being too diplomatic. Yes, it’s true. His courtly bow before Japanese Emperor Akihito was deemed demeaning by that Miss Manners of international relations, Dick Cheney. Cheney said it “showed weakness” for a U.S. president to observe such formality with one of our closest allies, ...
My mother stared at the new cable remote the way the ancients must have stared at a solar eclipse. For a minute, I thought she was going to run into her bedroom and slam the door. But the powerful demands of another glowing pagan god, the 42-inch Toshiba flat screen, exerted an even greater pull and my Mom is convinced she’ll perish without Diane Sawyer in the morning. Thus, we began the ritual ...
