My mom is 90 today. I wish. How she looked at 40 is how she’ll always remain. Frozen in time. 90 years. What used to be remarkable has become commonplace: celebrities, many of my friends parents, all three of my aunts including my mother’s own sister, living well into their 90’s. That’s made it even harder as […]
A Day in the Life: Meeting the Beatles in Miami Beach
This post is part of a BlogHop to commemorate the 50 year anniversary of the Beatles’ first appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show. Not that I’m bitter. But it’s been 50 years and I might never get over the fact that I didn’t get to see the Beatles perform live when they were literally in […]
Beach Babes in Magic City
Once upon a time, long long ago, and far away, there lived 6 girls in a place called Magic City. Hold on; I just need to interrupt a second. This sounds like a fairy tale but it’s true; so for the sake of accuracy, it wasn’t really called Magic City. But I didn’t make that up. […]
Making downsizing an Olympic event with an assist from Amy
Downsizing was pretty much a drag, until Amy Hughes showed up. She always made me laugh, since we first met at Camp Ge-Wah-Na the summer we turned 10. She lived in New York; I lived in Florida. With no cell phones and no internet, we kept the friendship going via letters until we lost touch […]
You Gotta Have Girlfriends
I’ve always felt lucky to be a woman of our particular generation. We came along at the perfect time to be women – to witness the flourishing of the women’s movement, and to benefit from it personally. The women who led the feminist movement had enormous impact and influence on all our lives. So surely […]
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 […]
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