- Dear Margo: He Wants You to What?
- Liz Peek: Obama Deaf to Election Warning But May Get Bailed Out
- Liz Smith: Helen Mirren, a True Russki
- Interrogating Kate Gosselin and Rush Limbaugh (Video)
- Liz Smith: The 25 Faces of Anna Deavere Smith
- Dining room table? Fur coat? A new house? What was your first 'adult' purchase?
- As we approach Sesame Street's 40th birthday, tell us: What is your favorite memory of Sesame Street?
- Living Landmarks With Liz Smith and Tommy Tune (Photos)
- Liz Smith Addresses Michael Jackson Movie Rumors (Video)
- From Blah to Bold (Photos)
- Liz Smith: Helen Mirren, a True Russki
- Liz Smith: The 25 Faces of Anna Deavere Smith
- Dear Margo: He Wants You to What?
- When Candice Bergen Bought John Barrymore's Aviary
- Liz Peek: Obama Deaf to Election Warning But May Get Bailed Out
- What Adult Purchase 'Scared' Joan Ganz Cooney?
- As we approach Sesame Street's 40th birthday, tell us: What is your favorite memory of Sesame Street?
- Announcing the Winner of Our 'Caption This' Contest
- Mary Wells's First New York Experience
- Liz Smith Addresses Michael Jackson Movie Rumors (Video)
- Liz Peek: Obama Deaf to Election Warning But May Get Bailed Out
- Dear Margo: He Wants You to What?
- Interrogating Kate Gosselin and Rush Limbaugh (Video)
- Dining room table? Fur coat? A new house? What was your first 'adult' purchase?
- As we approach Sesame Street's 40th birthday, tell us: What is your favorite memory of Sesame Street?
- Living Landmarks With Liz Smith and Tommy Tune (Photos)
- Liz Smith: The 25 Faces of Anna Deavere Smith
- Announcing the Winner of Our 'Caption This' Contest
- Liz Smith: Helen Mirren, a True Russki
- Liz Smith's Most Popular Purchase






























My Comments (197 so far…)
Caption This!
Liz Smith: Jon and Kate Plus the Lohans – Mommies and Daddies Dearest?
Schadenfreude is so right..We all seem to enjoy the gossip vicariously even when we don’t own T.V.s. I own one but never looked at the show until you couldn’t avoid the in your face stories at every checkout etc.
Liz, really good insight into the Gosselins. He and She are so immature and made such bad decisions all along the way. The kids need to be supported and are very cute the few times I have seen them. The answer lies in the parents growing up and behaving like real parents. That means spending time with the children and behaving decently to each other.
As for Jodie Foster, she just happens to be gifted mentally and mom did something right in sending her to good schools and keeping her priorities in order. I don’t know about the other young actors like Lindsay Lohan but even if she is gifted the parenting lacked maturity from both of the publicity hounds. She is young enough to get on a better path and I hope she does.
All of the answers on this site are so good and intelligent that is why I like WOW. Thanks fellow WoWers.
When to Say 'No' – And More Life Lessons From Mireille Guiliano, by Erin L. Jones
A Full Life is the one you look back on when your life is almost over. The choices you made, children or childless, career or home are done. If you look back only at the mistakes and wrong decisions then it was not a full life. If you can look back and say, "hey that wasn’t so bad". Then you had a full life whether you choose to look at it in that way.
As Robert Burns said so well."If you could see yourself as others see us You would be happy with the gifts that God Gave Us". (paraphrased from the Scots.) And I say this not as a religious person but as one who has led a life with all the good times and all the bad times. Just live your life.
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Julia Reed Wants You to Stop Tweeting, Blogging for an Hour
The wOw Conversation: Is 'The Good Wife' the 'Smart Wife'? (Audio)
Very interesting conversation. three things stood out to me. #1 These guys are probably inadequate sexually in some way and the wife knows and stands by for her own reasons, children,family,lifestyle.
#2 Political women who have their own political agenda in mind for the future.
#3 Don’t compare us to the French. If we wanted their life style we would have adopted the French as our role models in the 1700’s.
Should Roman Polanski go to prison?
What is your first memory – if any – of the presence of class difference in our society?
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Judith Martin and Murderous Landscapes
My Funeral Oration for the Late Writer Dominick Dunne, by Liz Smith
Very lovely tribute to a very interesting man and writer. I never met him but did see him at a trial in Santa Monica years ago. He was following a trial known as The Billionaire Boys Club. I am not sure if it was before or after he lost his daughter.
I then started following his general writings and later his stories on T.V.
What a talented family he came from. I will miss him in spite of never having met him. Thank you Liz
Margo Howard: Move Over, Levi Strauss
Levi is a post-teenager blip on the radar screen of life. Everyone who has been a teen at one time or another or who has had the joy of living with them knows that they speak before they think. Anyone ever seen "Bridezillas"? Well there should be a Teenzilla program. As for Sara Palin, that is old news. We should only care about her as a possible future political menace. But we know there is always a shade of truth in the Teenzillas’ when they speak. Go Margo. P.S. Sara will never be a real influence in politics again..She has found a new way to get wealthy.
Stop talking personal stuff in front of your teenzillas. Sara is done with higher office. Very sad.
Write a book, Go on National TV shows, Hang on the coat-tails of the Republican party. Maybe even become a spokesman for handi-capable children. There must be a way to stay in the public eye and she will find it.
Margo Howard: Move Over, Levi Strauss
Brainstorm Your Own Health-Care Reform Plan
Brainstorm Your Own Health-Care Reform Plan
You are 100% right. If we do correct the Health Care and Prevention program there must be a way to pay for it. Here in California all of the taxes going to state level seem to get diverted no matter who is in charge.’
Perhaps it means more taxes for everyone. If so then I believe it would be worth the pain. I am retired and on a fixed income and Nurses starting when I became one did not earn much money. I still believe in expanding our health care to everyone and there must be some guarantee. First we support our troops and get them out of foreign soil as soon as possible. Use some of that money .
Brainstorm Your Own Health-Care Reform Plan
You are totally right on. Preventative care is the key. And I believe that complications of heart attacks, cancer, etc. along with prevention of everyday diseases is the way to go. I believe that at one time or another every family in the U.S. will cope with the aftermath of illnesses that could have been prevented. This is a personal issue for everyone. they just may not have dealt with personal or family illness.
I wish I Had the solutions. No one is saying Senior Citizens should lose anything. What we are saying is that the type of care some are entitled to should be available to everyone.We do not all want to go to the Mayo Clinic.
The Government has to get their priorities in order. Lower some of the privileges of our Legislature members in Washington. Reorder the spending practices of add-ons to legislation that makes their rich or powerful supporers happy.
This down financial period will end. As a child of the depression Health Care was more available then it is now. Mainly the medications and treatments were limited. And the follow up expenses were low. I do not say we should go back to the time with no antibiotics or heart surgery and medieval medicine.We just have to find a way to include everyone. No one is lucky enough to escape family and personal health issues if they live long enough.
I do wish I had the solutions except for prioritizing our needs and Health Care is number one on the list.
I repeat. People should not lose care, but all families as far as Health Care and Prevention should be on the same level. Prevention and proper treatment is the key for everyone.