Two weeks ago, we hosted a PTA meeting at our house. (I’m heading into my second term as president of the parent-teacher association for my daughter’s school.) After the other board members had left, our dear friend (and PTA vice-president) Sheva stayed to chat. As my wife and I stood with the veep in the […]
Several weeks ago, I read a short article in The Huffington Post by Lisa Bloom “How to Talk to Little Girls.” As an aunt to four “chiblings” (read: children of siblings), two of whom are little girls, I found that Bloom’s article struck a particularly resonant chord. My sister and her husband do a tremendous job of raising these […]
I feel beautiful dressed as a woman. I love the gloss of red polish on my toenails, the breeze of a skirt swirling around my gams, and my hair when it gets long and wavy. Sadly, these days, aside from a shaggy mop of hair, I rarely go all out. But for a time in […]
I’m someone who has spent much of her life thinking about and observing gender differences. Growing up in a clear patriarchy, I was very aware that women seemed to have few choices and little influence. Perhaps it’s no surprise, then, that I spent most of my career over the last two plus decades focused on […]
Have you heard? Kim Kardashian is apparently the First Woman To Ever Get Married, or so you might think from all the media coverage of the recently-engaged star. Kim Kardashian is a brand unto herself, making thousands of dollars in appearance fees and loaning her image to products such as Skechers Shape-Ups and various diet […]
Epiphanies don’t often come with hoop earrings but mine recently did. I’m somewhat embarrassingly admitting that lobe-dangling geometric inspiration came from a recent rewatching of the original “Sex in the City” movie. You remember the one where Carrie goes a little bridezilla and wonders why Big couldn’t hang. My hoop inspired a-ha moment wasn’t about […]
