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When she was a young starving actress, Barbra Streisand would sit at a bar in Greenwich Village and wait for somebody to offer to buy her a drink. “I’d…

Mar 3

Please excuse me while I rearrange the furniture. Substack is a new platform for me. It’s intended to be my writing desk — and a place where we can…

Dec 27, 2022

Happy New Year! Anybody got a hat?

Dec 31, 2022

I exited the corporate world in 2006 and opened a real estate brokerage in Galveston, Texas. On September 13, 2008, we were wiped out by Hurricane Ike…

Dec 27, 2022

DATELINE Jan. 7, 2021 — I got an early morning call from a client asking me to review a message he had drafted overnight in response to the insurrection…

Jan 26

He whispered in my ear at the first dress rehearsal. "Act short. Those heels make you too tall." It was 1979, and I had the great good fortune to be…

Mar 13

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