DarryleP

 Everyone  has talked about it, argued about it,  written about it,  parodied it — to the point that there’s nothing left to add to the conversation.But I’m doing it anyway.I can’t resist adding my two cents.  Or sense.  Or common sense.  Read more >

 That the news was predictable doesn't make it less painful. And somehow it feels so personal.Maybe because he was so brilliant; maybe because it's so close to all of our lives in so many ways. Not just the devices we use every day but maybe because he seemed to be the ultimate survivor -- it hits hard that even Steve Jobs was powerless against cancer.  Read more >

I don’t like taking part in the Steve Jobs "death watch" (as it's being called).  And I also don’t like dismissing the idea of a miracle.  Yet you don’t need to have Jobs’ vision to see that his resignation signals his declining health.  Read more >

Sure, there's truth in advertising.  Like, that dress you saw on Giselle in Vogue?  Isn't going to look like that on your body.  And that ad for makeup featuring the Face of Lancome?  Isn't going to make your skin glow like Julia Roberts'.  Read more >

 I followed her around one day  as part of a small group of reporters, as she knocked on doors campaigning for her husband in a suburban  Miami neighborhood.   She was so friendly, so natural, so  accessible; if you didn’t know who she was, you’d believe she could have been one of the local moms on the other side of the door, opening it and welcoming you into her home.   People liked her no matter where they stood on the political spectrum.I don’t know if she changed any voters’ minds that day.  Read more >