Today is my birthday. Which one is irrelevant, as I have stopped counting. Believe me, I know which one this is, but I don't feel like dwelling on it. I have always felt younger than I am, perhaps because my parents are still, with all their aches and pains, quite youthful. I have a childhood friend who is lucky, like me, in that her parents are still around. She whines about how they continue to infantilize her; "What do you MEAN you went out and bought a TV without talking

This morning, I was greeted by a text message from a friend, alerting me that my recipe for Chicken Provencal, one that was beautifully written about by the New York Times' Sam Sifton in connection with my book, "Confessions of a Serial Entertainer," had been reposted as one of the 50 most popular recipes over the last 2 years- possibly THE most popular recipe. Now, I used to make Chicken Provencal A LOT- so much so that I stopped making it. Honestly, up until last week when