On December 26, 1996, 6-year-old JonBenet Ramsey was found dead in the basement of her family’s home in Boulder, Colorado (USA). It makes me shudder to know it was her father, John, who found her strangled and beaten body (no father should ever have to experience that)…and then to have to live for the next […]

Sometimes, when I start to cry hard, I like to sit in my dad’s closet, or go into his office. I like to be somewhere that reminds me of him because it makes me feel he is closer. Death seems so far away, an unimaginable distance. When I was in his office last, I found […]

When I walked out the door every morning to leave for school, I always assumed that when I came back everything would be the same as when I woke up that morning. Now I know, regrettably, that life doesn’t work that way. Everything might be indescribably perfect one day, then the next, everything else could […]

My Father [Richard Carlson] was the most amazing man in my life. No one will ever take his place as long as I am on this Earth. I’m crying right now, but in a happy way because I know my daddy is with me. And I know so many people loved him so dearly and […]

Fill Your life With Love (excerpt from column published Dec. 18/2006) “The shortest distance between two points is an intention and this is certainly the case when it comes to becoming more loving to oneself and to others. We must first have the desire and then the intention and commitment to be a source of […]

I was feeling very peaceful until I heard that a suicide bomber assassinated Benazir Bhutto, Pakistan’s former Prime Minister, today, as she waved to a crowd of supporters. Now, amid political unrest, there is rioting in the streets of Pakistan. People are looking for ways to target their anger and their unshakeable and acute rage–an […]

Last night as I sat listening to Matt Lauer’s Dateline conversation with Diana’s sons, Princes William and Harry, I was impressed with their desire to celebrate Diana’s life and energy. They want to focus on what she brought to the world—not on any image that the press has given of her. I remember the moment […]

  Now I don’t know about the following…seems very confusing to me… A PI from the east coast of Canada contacted me recently and tried to draw a parallel between my sister, Cindy James, and Paris Hilton, because they both had breast implants and had been terrorized, he said. Life was a nightmare for them, […]

  The unexpected and accidental death of this popular TV conservationist (who was killed by a stingray’s poisonous barb this morning while filming) is such a shock! My heart goes out to his family. To lose a loved one without warning is excruciating – it doesn’t matter if it is an accident or a suicide […]