The Critical Mom

&nbspConsider the alternatives, pal, consider the alternatives.  That's what I tell myself as I remember the day's events: I was...

  When I read about the arrest of Gabriel Olds, the actor, I remembered him playing   a rapist on Grey’s Anatomy —pushed i...

Dr. Ruth, Richard Simmons and Shannon Doherty gone all in one week? Feels like the eighties are dying.Dr Ruth was my absolute favorite--so ...

It's good for you and soothes the soul, especially if you're thinking He With The Worm Supposedly Removed is the next POTUS. Or the ...

Few can resist that Trumpty-Dumpty phrase--John Lithgow produced amusing rhymes in his 2020 poetry collection, Dumpty . The banner headline ...

Yesterday, walking through the "Roads Not Taken" exhibit at the Deutsches Historisches Museum, I thought of Joni Mitchell's ly...

Here's one of the things everyone loves about Berlin--the Ampelmännchen, or "little walking men" created in 1961 by traffic ps...

I dropped ten years on the first day. Yes, it's paradise. The sounds of the city. The all-night "Spätis," meaning "Laties...

It's the latest in cancer meds for women with estrogen-positive, progesterone negative, Her2 negative or low metastatic breast cancer.  ...

Bored? Want something new? This is easy and tasty. Ingredients: Chicken drumsticks Salt and pepper Vegetable of your choice (I used a red be...

I can only imagine it--what I imagine arises from recollections of reading the English translation of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's 1962 nove...

  Ingredients: One elephant garlic clove, pressed (or any large clove of garlic) Lemon juice from half a large lemon Good greek olive oil (s...

Haven't used the thing in a blue moon. But why not? It's there, it does everything for you, and all you have to do is load it up.  I...

 Nikki Haley said, “We’re not a racist country. We’ve never been a racist country.” That's true and untrue. The Declaration of Independe...

In a nuanced Quillete article, John R. Wood reflects on Dr. Martin Luther King's connections to the notion of systemic racism; having f...

Side-effects are well-documented; some of us have them worse than others. But we're all bald, and for most of us, that means no eyebrows...

There's nothing like duck at Christmas! Buy a bunch of duck thighs, preferably the French kind. There are a lot of complicated marinades...

 This is generally yummy, but also particularly good for ladies on chemo who have what I call "Mr. Allnutt Syndrome " or worse. Yo...

This is a typical response to Liz Collin's recent film, " The Fall of Minneapolis," which the New York Times has ignored, but...

Which is what I still am! Despite a single known exposure. Yes, got the latest vaccination a month ago. I hopped on the get-one-with-your-fl...