From One Girlfriend to Another…and Another
I stared at my blank computer screen, the curser blinking rhythmically; beckoning me to write. Anything. Something. I was at a complete loss for words. I am trying to compose an email to a total...
View ArticleThe Art of Subtraction
“I’m sorry, Mama,” my seven-year-old daughter, Chloe said as she handed me a card she had made from yellow construction paper. “I made this for you.” All over its front, she had drawn red flowers and...
View ArticleI Disappeared and No One Noticed
I’ve learned something about silence: it’s noisier than I thought. Every day for the past few months, I’ve awakened in the chilly pre-dawn and listened to that deafening silence. It’s that quiet time...
View ArticleSmall Pots, Good Intentions
My late husband, Will never cooked for just the two of us. He always seemed perpetually prepared to cook for a crowd. Even at the crack of dawn. On a workday. Each morning, he would fill our giant...
View ArticleDaughter and Daddy
I woke up to a sky of silvery blue and the insistent shouting coming from down the hall. My daughter, Chloe, now almost seven months old, was calling for me, “Mamamama..maMAH! MaMAAAAH!” I pulled...
View ArticleWhen News Broke for Me
November 26, 2002 is etched like glass into my memory. The weather was crisp, yet uncharacteristically warm for the week before Thanksgiving in Atlanta where I was working as a CNN anchor. I was six...
View ArticleDoes a Woman Need a Man?
“He’s a really interesting guy,” my friend, Diane said, trying to sound all casual about adding a guest for our dinner date in New York City that was supposed to take place in a couple weeks. I was...
View ArticleThe Name Game
The title papers arrived in a plain white envelope from the tax assessor’s office. It was official: the sunny-yellow brick bungalow I had purchased was mine. I had chosen it because of its quaint...
View ArticleThe Right Words
It was a warm October morning in 2003 when I returned to work as an anchor at CNN for the first time since my husband, Will died after being diagnosed with a rare sinus cancer. I’d been away from...
View ArticleWhen News Breaks
In my 8-year career as a television journalist with CNN, I covered a lot of breaking news about other people’s tragedies— the Columbine school shooting, the wars in the Middle East, Kosovo and...
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