Yep!  It happens every year. Hallmark reigns! Candy, flowers, jewelry, Victoria’s Secret(s) – and for those who can actually stick it out for many a decade, like I did, a beautiful  brand new shiny —- Juicer! The men get cards, kisses and  — if they’re lucky, they get to use their Viagra. And all of […]

Everything’s Coming Up Rosen Emily’s been writing a column, essays, travel stories, profiles, features for over 20 years. Her work is available for syndication and reprint. BYE BYE 2014 Jan 2015 We said our goodbyes to Twenty Fourteen A year of more GREEN – a year of more mean Christie diverted all thoughts of his […]

Here’s how I know that “The Holidays”  —  are imminent and that “the season” is upon us. I am “this close” to having to hire a derrick to lift my newspapers up from my front door. Pregnant as they are with advertisements —  the very same kind that bulk up my mail box, and almost […]

When you get to a certain age – you have two daily mantras – subliminal words that run through your head like watermarks on stationery: 1) Be Careful  2) Be Grateful. Regarding the “Be Careful” echo – it repeats in my head with every step I take, every rotation of the four wheels on my […]

Fifty-Seven year old Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel is an oncologist, a bioethicist, a vice-provost of the University of Pennsylvania, an author, one of the architects of Obamacare, and the brother of Chicago Mayor,  Rahm Emanuel. In the current issue of the Atlantic magazine  he tries to make the case for “Why I Hope To Die at […]