I was put on six months medical leave in September, and decided to join Twitter: my husband figured it would be a good way for me to stay ...

A friend and I like to poke fun at folks who issue hyperbolic statements about their favorite TV shows, because -- well, because we're a...

My annual year in review. You can check out 2013 here , and 2014 here . As always, I do not purport to have watched every great show on tele...

Decades after his heyday, Blake Hunter remains one of my favorite sitcom writers, and like so many of my favorites (e.g., Bernard Slade on B...

The great soap writer Ann Marcus was first brought aboard Knots Landing in 1981, to shore up the series after a shaky Season 2, and here...

Last January, in my year-in-review post , I made note of my "big break-up" with CBS, and my decision to start devoting more time t...

1. The failed trip. I was re-watching an Old Christine the other night, and wanted to tear my (remaining) hair out. First, because it was ...

Greg Sumner : Abby, you don't believe in anything. Abby Ewing Sumner : That's not true: I believe in money... and power... And in t...

I posted the essay below at the Knots Landing Forum in the fall of 2011, just a few months before my husband birthday-gifted me this blog. T...

Some random thoughts for a stormy Saturday morning... Ann Marcus (August 22, 1921 – December 3, 2014)