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Podcast – Episode 58: Buying Stuff
Having just arranged for the payment of a rather large college tuition bill (“arranged” meaning we borrowed most of it), the topic of “buying stuff” has begun to occupy a lot of my attention. Not only...
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Writer’s Room – Episode 61 on Dating, Divorce and Marriage
Tomorrow’s episode of the RLSG, number 60, we’ll focus on our civic and social responsibility. And next up, on October 7th, it’s “Dating, Divorce and Marriage”. (Obviously, in no particular order.)...
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Podcast – Episode 60: Civic and Social Responsibility
With the election season bearing down on us, we thought it appropriate to feature a conversation about our what our civic and social responsibilities should entail in what has turned out to be a pretty...
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Podcast – Episode 61: Dating, Divorce and Marriage
We’ve been focusing on the specifics of some of our “chapters” lately, and in the area of relationships, based on the fact that there are many difficulties associated with the process of coupling – and...
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Writers Room – Episode 62 on Parenting
One of the suggestions that WNPR’s John Dankosky made to me a few months back is that we include more experts in our conversations. I’ve been heeding this advice, and I think it really works in this,...
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Podcast – Episode 62: Parenting
Out of all the things that confuse me (and there are many), parenting has to be at the top of my list. It’s something I really, really, really don’t want to screw up… but the correct path often seems...
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Podcast – Episode 63: Family Finances
When you look at the degree to which families are worried about money these days, we’re talking about something of fairly epic proportions. College tuitions have risen faster than Apple’s stock price,...
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Podcast – Episode 64: Holiday Cooking with Jacques Pépin
The great paradox of the holiday season for me has always been the way joy and stress walk hand in hand as we traverse the short days of November and December. In our never ending quest to find “joy”,...
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Cindy Papish Gerber: Producer’s Blog – Jacques Pépin
RSLG, nous sommes arrivés! Gathering around Jacques Pepin’s kitchen table to discuss Holiday Foods, actually talking turkey with this cooking legend, was most definitely a “pinch me, I’m dreaming”...
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Podcast – Episode 65: Getting Along
The holiday season has me thinking about parties, decorations and family togetherness… and the way people freak out when things don’t live up to their expectations. So, in honor of this “emotional...
View ArticleEpisode 66: Conserving Energy In Your Home
This time I decided to focus on extreme temperatures and money – two things I have a problem with. For this conversation, I invited Duo Dickinson (who happens to be an architect with a passion for such...
View ArticleEpisode 67: Holiday Stress
For episode 67 of the RLSG, we decided to talk about “holiday stress”. This was before our perception of the world changed – just two days ago – as the heartbreaking series of events played out in...
View ArticleEpisode 68: Volunteerism, Charity and Giving Back
I try to be a happy person, and I’m becoming more and more aware of the fact that to be truly happy, you have to look beyond yourself. (This seems particularly true when you consider recent events.) So...
View ArticleEpisode 69: Healthy Eating
As we rounded the corner in to 2013, my thoughts turned from the food I had been eating during the holidays to the food I’ve been eating during the football playoffs, and I figured it was a good time...
View ArticleEpisode 70: Germs
For our 70th “in person”conversation, we’ll be talking about “Germs”, which came to mind because we’re having a really bad flu season, and because experts are now talking about the highly contagious...
View ArticleEpisode 71: Grief and Loss
In Episode 71 we talked about “Grief and Loss”, an issue we all struggled with following the unthinkable violence in Newtown on December 14th. Joining me at the beautiful new restaurant Indgo by the...
View ArticleEpisode 72: Parenting College Aged Kids
As we concluded this series of conversations for WNPR, we turned to Parenting College Aged Kids”. Joining me for this episode were an expert in the field – Dr. Alan Kazdin from Yale – and several...
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