LaVonne Neff > LIVELY DUST

[Stages of a Man's Life from the Cradle to the Grave, c. 1848] Yesterday on Facebook I referred to my daughters, who are in their ea...

There will be time, there will be time To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet; There will be time to murder and create, ...

I was barely awake, and my mother was already screaming. I knew Papi would start yelling in a second. That much was routine, but the substan...

[Working till she drops] A couple of years ago my 40-something cardiologist earnestly told me that the Social Security/Medicare problem ...

"Call the Midwife,"  a BBC miniseries about intrepid nuns and nurses in London's East End in the 1950s, was  the UK's most...

"Retirement should involve re-tiring, or putting on new tires and doing even more than before." --Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, who g...

"Was it really like that?" As soon as people find out I actually worked at an advertising agency in the Mad Men era, they pepper ...

This Sunday is an important milestone for me. It's the day I no longer risk losing health insurance. I left my last job-with-benefit...

In 1968, 179 east London machinists walked off the job and changed history. The machinists weren't complaining about having to work long...

The January 2011 paperback edition is retitled Heart Matters. There are many good reasons to read Healing Hearts: A Memoir of a Female Heart...

Last December a couple of magazine editors asked me to read a galley of David Brooks's then-forthcoming book, The Social Animal: A Story...

In a s peech to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce  two days ago, President Obama appealed to some 200 business leaders to act responsibly. "...

Front Back Was I born on the wrong continent? Well, if you're talking bread, I'll definitely opt for the baguette. But Geoghegan (rh...

Now that President Obama's people have sent out glowing press releases about how wonderful the proposed tax agreement is ( "A Win f...

If I hadn't just read Moving Millions , I might not have noticed how many of this morning's news stories relate to immigration. Je...

I am a Michael Connelly fan. So far I have read or listened to 18 of his 21 novels , and I've loved 17 of them (I wasn't as thrille...

She had me at the subtitle. Dominique Browning lost her job as editor in chief of House and Garden when the magazine abruptly ceased publi...

Yesterday I wrote about the toll caregiving takes , especially on women. This is not news. For several decades we Boomers, shocked at the fa...

A few minutes ago I got the news that my daughter’s mother-in-law has stage 4 cancer. I was still staring at the computer screen, trying to ...

Arizona's Senate Bill 1070 , signed by Governor Jan Brewer last Friday , has the nation's knickers in a knot. I agree with Presiden...