Some friends invited me to see the movie Ocean’s 8. The actresses are great, but I could care less about females stepping into men’s worn-out roles. Liberated women can do better. The last Ocean’s movie I saw starred the Rat Pack: Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Peter Lawf
LGBTQ? Ask the web questions about most subjects and it will provide a clue. (Click) I thought I was up on my alphabet until I came across the term pangender. (Click) Scratching my head, I paused to wonder what some cake baker in Colorado would make of that. (Click) More imp
One of two women who clean my apartment at the retirement center stopped me in the hall to apologize for failing to wipe the upper corners of my living room windows. I’m not surprised at her failure. She stands about 4’ 10. Her partner, near the same height, couldn’t help
After the romantic flap over the wedding between England’s Prince Harry to American, Meghan Markle, Oregon Public Broadcast announced 70% of the British population favored maintaining the monarchy despite the expense and the grumbling of detractors. Surprisingly, a number of other c
Last week, I wrote a blog capped by a cartoon which amused my web manager. (Click) It exposed the gobbledygook terms that accrue to Artificial Intelligence (AI). Apparently, the alphabet soup expresses different purposes. Or, as a tweet from a recent article revealed, “It’
A funny thing happens when you ban girls from a boys’ club. Not only do they create their own, (Click) but what they build tends to have wide appeal. That’s what happened for Pooja Nath Sankar, now CEO of a Palo Alto Company called Piazza. Sankar didn’t plan to build a busin
Film critic Jason De Rosso makes a telling observation when he writes about the film, Phantom Thread, presumably the swan song of acclaimed actor, Daniel Day Lewis. “Maybe it’s because Phantom Thread comes close to landing flat on its face that it ends up such a breathtaking e
Donald Trump’s Cabinet appointments seem to be based on each candidate’s ineptitude. Rick Perry, head of the Department of Energy, forgot the department existed in his disastrous bid for president. (Click) Scott Pruitt, assigned to lead the Environmental Protection Agenc
It might be too early to worry about reverse discrimination with regard to women, but women-only colleges, like Wellesley, Mills and Smith are thriving and so are the ladies who lunch and wear extraordinary hats. They are the ones who’ve kept the women-only associations alive. M
In my upcoming memoir, I write about a Southern Baptist missionary I met in the 1960s, while living in Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe). She was a savvy woman, devoted to her work and endowed with a terrific sense of humor. Although I was an atheist, we became friends and from her, I