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9/29/04
The pressure is too much. Im not sure I can take it anymore. Every time I get in my silver Volvo with the dented back doors, I am entering a world filled with dread and uncertainties, with fear and recrimination. And thats before I get on the 405. more >

Bottoms Up: A Desert Irrigation Fable
People Magazine
8/27/04
No food. Harsh weather conditions. A diet consisting mainly of mysterious brown liquid. Deserted Army barracks. Torture with a blunt instrument. Did I mention No Food? The Gulag Archipelago, you ask? The Hanoi Hilton? No. The We Care Spa in Desert Hot Springs, California. more >

Red Carpet Widow
People Magazine, Oscar Issue
2/10/2004
Imagine your worst humiliation. Now, imagine that feeling, squared. Thats what its like to be a red carpet widow. I am a normal person. I like watching Survivor. I read the newspaper. I wear comfortable shoes. But I am married to someone who lives half his life in an abnormal world a world where beautiful people cavort and the wine flows like Evian, which flows like Fiji Water. more >

Why You DONT Want a Hollywood Relationship
Glamour Magazine
8/25/03
Ben and J-Lo, Reese and Phillipe, Tom and Nicole, Posh and Becks, Tom and Penelope, Ashton and Demi, Jen and Brad, Ren and Stimpy. The Hollywood Relationship is as old as, well, civilization Im sure Antony and Cleopatra were sending 200-pound eunuchs after the paparazzi and complaining about hieroglyphic headlines. more >

Cabana Wars
2/5/03
4:00AM. Pitch black. All is quiet but the sound of distant shoreline. I check my watch in the dark as I hurry along, powered by a need greater than sleep. There are others like me. I see them, their outlines black and ragged against the absence of light. more >

The Ultimate Luxury Item
Harpers Bazaar
7/16/01, modified 8/9/01
Keep your Versace walnut-color fall tote; keep your Christian Louboutin black and white patent-leather boot, your Dolce and Gabbana fox-collar jacket, away with your French barge trip along the Canal de Briare, your G5 with customized leather interior, your summer dwelling along the Barbary coast.
Today’s ultimate luxury item? A wife. more >