One thing great about getting older: You realize that clothes don’t matter. The cut, the style, the trendiness of whatever you’ve got on, BLAH! Those things don’t influence what you telegraph. ALL of them are subservient to…to what? Can you guess? COLOR. Color is everything. Have you hit upon this grand realization yet? The color…

Yesterday, I was standing in the elevator of Bloomingdale’s Manhattan flagship store with a red-headed saleswoman who had sold me a pair of earrings ten minutes earlier. “I actually came here to buy something to wear to my nephew’s bar mitzvah,” I said to her, “but I’m striking out badly. I need something sort of…

Steady CM readers know that my siblings and I recently set up our 91-year-old father’s house to accommodate round-the-clock nursing care. We turned our late mother’s dressing room into a pretty single bedroom just twenty feet from Dad’s bed so that the live-in nurse can quickly rise and attend to Dad in the middle of…

How to Tame a Wild ParentFrom the excellent new paperback “Teens Ask Deepak: All the Right Questions” by Deepak Chopra. Do not give them reason to worry. See things from their point of view. Give them the benefit of the doubt. Make housework a little easier. Be responsible for your own schedule. Take care of…

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