Lisa Marie was just nine years old when her dad died and she became joint heiress to his estate. A talented singer and actor, Lisa Marie carefully kept watch over her father's legacy over the years, all the way up until her own death in January 2023. THEN: Darius Rucker's Three Kids...
I mean picture it: a woman releases an egg, it travels down the fallopian tube, if no sperm find it, it dies and passes through the body with the rest of the uterine lining. If it’s fertilized, that egg changes, grows, and moves into the uterus and usually embeds in the right spo...
If, for instance, someone praises an actor, a musician, or a painter for the amazing spontaneity of a creative act, I might share in the admiration but I’ll also ponder the years of preparation and seasoning behind the act. If a child asks for my spontaneous reaction to something—a jo...
The extreme close-ups that had me feeling more like a dermatologist than a moviegoer? The flared-up cinematography that didn’t really allow for much cinematography? The story that was so confusing I still don’t know what parts of the story even happened — the murders? Joe’s return? Th...
“Honey, this isn’t a long-term commitment. What if we take him home and he dies in two months?” “I know. I don’t know.” He shakes his head. “What do I do if I need to go somewhere with all three dogs? Can I handle that?” “Good question. I don’t know.” “...
When I was ten, I nearly set fire to my family’s house. I, like many kids, needed to test grownups’ claims, and one that struck me as particularly dubious was that gasoline was flammable since it was a liquid. Every liquid I’d ever seen meet a flame—water, soda, juice, pee—...
Every case of Cuddle-Ups gave me dozens more opportunities to bury sodden time capsules of my daughter. I still like the way Frances smells. She often wakes up in the middle of the night and staggers robotically to our big bed and slides in next to me, and when I wake up I nuzzle ...