Nora DePalma

Racist is just another word for ignorant.And ignorant I surely was when many, many years ago, I penned an angry, snarky column for my college newspaper that criticized affirmative action. Raised in a NJ community where the high school was 99.99% white, I was so clearly an expert on what it meant to be a minority.As news director of my college radio station, I selected a panel of my hardest working newscasters for the student government debate. Then one got bumped and replaced by a representative from what was then called the Black Student Union.  Read more >

I once led an adult Sunday School class on the Sunday before Thanksgiving. I knew there was power in this kind of affirmation action, but I didn't foresee the equal and opposite reaction of people being completely unprepared and unwilling to sit still and accept sincerely heartfelt thanks. Image: vistamommy via Flickr Especially among these conservative Christians.  Read more >

1. Her last name is Kardashian. 2. The conversation is great, but the sex is boring. 3. The sex is great, but the conversation is boring.  Read more >

We used to call my mom the World’s Oldest Living Anorexic. Trust me, she did not know this. I would have been so grounded. At 83, she counted calories, denied herself, and felt joy in only one place: on the scale.  It was a good day if she  was under 100 pounds. It was a bad day if she tipped into three figures. More...  Read more >

Before there was our great marriage, there was our productive business relationship with a super-smart husband/wife market research team. They built a business where they could work together, travel together, and have a lot of sex with each other. We knew this because Bob made it very clear that he thought Mimi was the hottest thing on the planet. In his early 70s, Bob had a life-threatening stroke, but experimental medicine saved him. It only had one side effect:"They made me really horny," Bob said.  Read more >