For me March 15 is the day the Covid lockdown began. It’s the day the New York City Public Schools closed. We’d seen it coming for weeks as we watched the CNN reporting from Italy and Washington state. My office had already...
Last summer, I was sitting at my mother’s breakfast table talking politics, when my daughter popped her head out from behind the comics and asked, “Mom, what’s abortion?” I don’t recall how old I was when I first heard...
I do not want my daughter to be afraid of carbs. I do not want her to believe fried food is evil. But I also do not want her to solve her problems, or avoided them, with a pint of ice cream. I want her to have a healthy...
Two years ago, my life took a left turn. The phone rang. The biopsy was positive. I had breast cancer. I am not alone. Look around any Starbucks. Chances are every eighth woman in line will get that call eventually...
Steven Shore hates me. That’s what I thought as a Bard College freshman in his Photography 101 class, while I argued about why I had not done the assignment as directed: uncropped, unmanipulated, and uncontrived. Looking back...
This post is part of the series P.T.A. : Parenting Through the Apocalypse (my occasionally fictional life.) Every morning, she stands in front of my daughter’s elementary school oozing nonchalant self-confidence. Chatting...
On the morning of November 8, 2016, my daughter and I woke up full of hope and promise. Today was the day; we were going to elect Hillary Clinton as president on the United States. We would transition from one intelligent...
For the next 100 days, I’ll be posting a series of short pieces about parenting in the age of Trump, under the collective title, PTA: Parenting Through the Apocalypse. Each week I’ll explore the celebrations and conflicts...
Almost every woman I know has been sexually harassed, most of us many, many times. And that begs the statistical question: Have almost all the men I know sexually harassed someone? Just writing that sentence makes me...
Corporate “sponsorship” (a.k.a. money, goods, and services donated companies to non-profits in exchange for brand/logo placement, tax right-offs, and good press) is part of most arts organizations’ bottom line. Usually...
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