Anger | Strategy
A few days ago I wrote a post about the Delhi gang rape. It was called “Angry” and it detailed the rage I felt both about what that young woman had suffered and what every woman in this country experiences to greater or lesser [...]
My Kingdom For A Speech Therapist
Sometimes we just get lucky. Really and truly and amazingly lucky. Several years ago, I wrote this little essay and sent it around to as many people as I could think of: I told a friend in Mumbai that I was coming there in March to headhunt for [...]
A Birthday Girl and Her Birthday Mom
Moy Moy’s birthday is always my year’s most emotional day. Ever since we were told – 12 years ago now! – that she had only a few more months to live, her birthday has been our very own “Yes we can.” As she [...]
Though much is taken, much abides
I grew up with this sweet little jug. It was part of a set my parents received on their wedding day, and all of it would appear on the dining table every Thanksgiving and Christmas, a signal to us children of just how special the meal would be. [...]
Anti-Abortion; Pro-Obama
I was the first person in America to go to jail for opposing abortion. It was 1977 and abortion had been legal for four years. I was 19, a very close friend was pregnant and didn’t want to be and life was black and white to me. She went to [...]
Nothing’s A Gift, It’s All On Loan
My neighbor died last week. He was the one who couldn’t leave his house for more than ten minutes at a time, and then only when the maid was there and his wife, so ill with Parkinson’s, had been bathed and dressed and fed and was [...]
