I. THE INTELLIGENT SOUL

1. My Mother's Case of Pleasant Dementia - Newsweek, 2008
2. Joan Didion - the Abyss, Oprah, 2005
3.What They Did for Bliss - the Nuns of Regina Laudis, Oprah, 2004
4. Taking the Cure with Dr. Weil in India, More, 2002 *
5. The Case of Dr. Elizabeth Targ - Does Prayer Work? Oprah, 2003
6.Sally Kempton - The Making of an American Swami, My Generation, 2001
7. Ram Dass is Back, New York Times Magazine, 2001
8. Energy Magic - Healer Rosalyn Bruyere, Oprah, 2001

II. HOW WE LIVE
1. Real Property, Esquire, 1979
2. A Customer Finds Herself @Wits' End, Los Angeles Times, 2001 *
3. The Perfect Nanny, Los Angeles Times Magazine, 1991
4. Murder in Westwood, Oprah, 2003

III. SEX AND LOVE
1. Love Late, O Magazine, 2007
2. The Politically Incorrect Orgasm, Mirabella, 1997
3. The Man with Ten Wives, Rolling Stone, 1975
4. Open Land: Getting Back to the Communal Garden, Harper's Magazine, 1970

IV. THE POLITICAL GAME
1. Travels with Jerry Brown, Los Angeles Times Magazine, 1992
2. The First Advance Woman, Harper's Magazine, 1974 *
3. Notes from the Land of the Cobra, New York Times Magazine, 1974

* humorous pieces