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 […]
Aging & Appearance
20 things I would tell my 20-year old self
For me, 20 was a big year—I spent the summer traveling around Europe; it was my first year at Yale as a transfer from Cornell; and my mom had died the year before. Despite how it looks, I hadn’t done anything really dangerous or really stupid….yet. I guess this should be number one: […]
Something Old, Something New
Something Old— is me. Something New— is what I’m doing about it. No, I’m not getting a facelift. The Something Old isn’t just me; it’s also not that old. It’s a piece I wrote more than a year ago, which was posted on several sites including the Huffington Post. I read that same post at […]
Age has arrived
I was clueless. I had been blogging for one week when I arrived at BlogHer ’08. I didn’t understand the terms describing the sessions, didn’t know I needed a ticket beforehand, didn’t know that even banging on the door wouldn’t get me in. I also didn’t realize I was an outlier. Not just at BlogHer […]
Memory loss? 10 Questions for the forgetful
From the reaction to my recent posts on losing misplacing things, it seems as if many of us are in the same boat. And it’s leaking fast. Just as a reality check, I thought I’d share a little quiz to see if you should worry about memory loss. 10 Questions to test your […]
No high school memories
I had a friend from high school visiting here a couple weeks ago. What I remember most about that visit centers on our memories. Not memories from times in high school—I mean our memories. We’ve lost them. We spent half of our time together trying to remember if we had our cellphones with us—and […]
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