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 […]
Angelina's Choice: Whose body is it, anyway?
It used to be that if there was a name aligned with “Choice” it was Sophie. “Choice” is now and maybe forever associated with Angelina Jolie. She was incredibly courageous to be so honest, to open the conversation; to expose herself to the media storm she knew was waiting. But given that her children are […]
Angelina Jolie's choice
As someone who’s so closely associated with breast cancer, I feel I should acknowledge Angelina Jolie and welcome her to the sorority no one wants to join. So I’m writing this to salute her for having a double mastectomy in order to avoid getting breast cancer, the disease that killed her mother. And […]
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 […]
Another side of the woman at Hefner's side for over 40 years
I just read about the death of Mary O’Connor, who worked for Hugh Hefner for more than 40 years and was known as the Bunny housemother, appearing on The Girls Next Door. I’ve never seen the show; but I’ve seen the girls on the show and Hef mourning her passing on the internet. And attached to […]
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