Building Character

It's a hard lesson to learn and often a very painful one. Suffering a profound disillusionment or a deep personal loss is what helps to build character. Prior to performing Stephen Sondheim's classic "I'm Still Here" at a White House gala, Elaine Stritch opined that the song should only be sung by people who are at least 80 years old. Allowing that some women in their sixties could probably do the song justice, she cringed at the memory of hearing a singer in her forties trying to make Sondheim'...