I don’t just feel sad; I feel like an accomplice in the murder. Since I’m a Jewish mother, and we specialize in guilt— I can’t help feeling guilty about taking part in killing bookstores. What makes it worse is that technically this is a crime of passion—since there are few things I love more than […]
Father's Day Gifts
No one looks big next to Muhammad Ali; but in other ways, my dad was a big man. Smart. Savvy. Successful. Especially to me– he was a huge force in my life, my only parent since I was a teenager. There were no books or blogs to teach him how to be a single parent—there […]
a story in pictures
I have very few pictures from my Yale years– and they perfectly capture the experience. Not just the era but the lopsided numbers. Not too many girls were in the picture—literally or figuratively. Leaving out faculty and staff there are just a handful of women in this shot of the seniors graduating from my residential […]
Superwomen at Yale
The name conjures up a special cachet in America lore. The nation’s second oldest college. Alma mater of Presidents. Hillary and Bill met there in law school. Bastion of the old boy network. Captains of industry sent their sons for 300 years. But not their daughters. Yale was all-male—until 1968 when in the midst of […]
The college crunch
This time of year brings a milestone for high school seniors and their parents— the climax of the college crunch–as inevitable and seasonal as the holidays or hay fever. It seems like yesterday I was sweating it out—as a student and a parent. This year both of my kids will be college graduates, but I […]
past proof
A visit with Mary to the old city of Jerusalem—-brought a sense of deja vu, a lesson in memory loss, and proof that the world works in mysterious ways. Last week on the day I left, I wrote a post about my first trip to Israel 40 years ago : You could see I had […]
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