We know who Anderson Cooper is but we are clueless what his show "Anderson" is supposed to be about.
Without that, there is no compelling reason to tune in, especially since he has so much competition from what's happening on the web and mobile. No surprise his ratings lag behind hit shows starring Dr. Oz and Ellen DeGeneres.
Since his own life was shaped by the loss of his brother - we can see the woundedness in Cooper - why not create a new dark niche on daytime about the kinds of things, people, and illusions we lose, how we heal, and what's next. Ideal guests would be Joan Didion, author of "Blue Nights," and Madonna Badger, the Calvin Cline ad expert who lost her three children and parents in a Christmas fire in Stamford, Connecticut.
I would welcome going on "Anderson" and talking about how I have learned to walk through pet grief. I will likely be facing it yet again with my 16-year-old Havana Brown animal companion Carlotta. We have a 3:30 P.M. vet appointment today. Either she will be leaving with a pain patch or passing over to join her buddies Molly Mittens, Nicole, Callie, Point Pleasant, Sarah, and Rebecca. There isn't a day which goes by when I don't recall the love we shared in the recent scary recession and the earlier times of great material abundance.
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