Women who become mothers experience Mother’s Day from both sides—as daughters and as mothers. An experience that’s not necessarily two sides of the same coin. More than any other day of the year, for me this day brings mixed emotions: one side sad; the other joyous. The year I was 18 was the last […]
A First: I'll Eat You Last
I feel as if I’ve been been underground since Groundhog’s Day. (More on why– coming soon) I did emerge briefly last week to attend a wedding on the east coast……which gave me exactly one night in New York to see family…..which turned out to be the exact one night for a first-in-a-lifetime experience. What timing: […]
Women in a Male Society: From a Click to a Boom
The title leaped out at me from the course catalogue. Women in a Male Society seemed to describe my current life. In the middle of my senior year in college, I was one of 175 women about to become the first female graduates of Yale College in its nearly 300- year history. So I signed […]
Bob Beers: A Loss for Words
I want to write about him; but I know my words will fail to capture the essence of Bob Beers. His words would be so much better. And funnier. He was brilliant, erudite, articulate—part curmudgeon/part newsman in the mold of Edward R. Murrow. If he read that, he’d probably laugh and say he was more […]
Sealed With a Kiss: The Lips Project
Remember S.W.A.K.? For anyone too young to know– that’s what you wrote next to the lipstick kiss on the back of letters to your boyfriend. (Not that anyone writes letters anymore.) S.W.A.K. Sealed With a Kiss. Actually the lips in this image belong to a man—one of hundreds of people persuaded to put on lipstick […]
Mother/son travel: How far would you go for your son?
A (Jewish) mother on a trip with her grown son– a concept outlandish and outrageous enough to make a movie about it. The instant I saw the preview of Guilt Trip, I was guilty— of doing exactly what Barbra Streisand does to Seth Rogen in the movie. I immediately texted my own grown-up son— to […]
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