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.  Confessions of a Dove in Afghanistan, Huffington Post, 2009

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

* humorous pieces