I Think If You're Lucky

I Don't Know Why So Much Nonsense About Age Is Written - Although I Can Certainly Understand That No One Really Wants To Read Anything That Says Aging Sucks.

Success Comes And Goes. Your Flops Stay With You For Life.

We Have A Game We Play When We’re Waiting For Tables In Restaurants, Where You Have To Write The Five Things That Describe Yourself On A Piece Of Paper. When I Was [in My Twenties], I Would Have Put: Ambitious, Wellesley Graduate, Daughter, Democrat, Single. Ten Years Later Not One Of Those Five Things Turned Up On My List. I Was: Journalist, Feminist, New Yorker, Divorced, Funny. Today Not One Of Those Five Things Turns Up In My List: Writer, Director, Mother, Sister, Happy.

I Look Out The Window And I See The Lights And The Skyline And The People On The Street Rushing Around Looking For Action, Love, And The World's Greatest Chocolate Chip Cookie, And My Heart Does A Little Dance.

My Mother Was A Good Recreational Cook, But What She Basically Believed About Cooking Was That If You Worked Hard And Prospered, Someone Else Would Do It For You.