Life Lessons

Un-Resolutions for 2019

As 2018 started winding down, I started mentally listing all the things I want to tackle in 2019. I’ve been at this juncture before. The juncture…

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Fear & Self-Loathing in Lean In Pages

I’m consuming the “fall” of Facebook’s Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg with almost a morbid satisfaction. After the New York Times revealed executives at Facebook are…

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Suddenly, I Cried Crocodile Tears

I had barely gotten to the end of the headline that the 2019 Class of Rhodes Scholars was the most diverse ever when a lump formed…

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Ethnically Ambiguous, Please Don’t Stare

“I hate how Europeans like to stare,” I said to my husband. We had landed in the Azores on that morning’s redeye from Boston. After an…

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Catching My Breath

It’s been over a month since I wrote anything here. So much for that “goal” to write a blog post every week. After I wrote about Christine…

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One Powerful Voice – Thank You Dr. Ford

Christine Balsey Ford slipped out of Washington after her testimony. I presume she went somewhere to be safely obscured from prying eyes and dangerous threats. Wherever…

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Fall Metaphors

It’s raining outside. The rain is cold and sharp. A type of rain that New England conjures up in early fall to remind its residents that,…

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On Kavanaugh: Are girls listening? I know was.

Some guy just called me a hypocrite on Facebook today. I am outraged at this debacle, so it figures that some middle-aged, white dude called me…

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MotoTherapy: I Would Ride10,000 Miles

On Sunday, the odometer on my motorcycle ticked over to 10,000 miles most of which were ridden in solitude. Quite a feat considering I only got…

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