Tasllima Nasrin is a woman without a country. Born in Bangladesh, she fled her native land in 1993 because religious fundamentalists threatened her, a physician who wrote about feminine oppression. Abused as a child, her work touches not only upon gender inequality, but also on freedo

A quiet revolution took place in medicine at the beginning of the year which patients may have noticed but couldn’t explain.  The federal electronic health records regulations (HER) went into effect January 1.  The regulations  mandate that all medical offices go paperless, a

I’m an organized person and I can accomplish much in a day, but to be honest, I’m lazy. if I could hire someone to breathe for me, I would.  My ideal life would be to lounge on  a Caribbean beach with a good book in one hand and a rum and coke in the other.  I’ve never been t

On July 3 of this year, I wrote a blog referencing Two Lipsticks and a Lover by Frith Boswell, a book which details how French women differ from their American counterparts. Yesterday, while I was browsing among titles at the Dollar Store, I came across another book on the subject: Wh

The time has come to begin the third rewrite of my memoir. The manuscript has laid fallow for a month, so I will look at it with fresh eyes, correcting imperfections and doing my best to serve my readers. When it reaches print, it will be the best effort I can make at this stage of my

My father taught me the difference between truth and a lie when I was five.  The story begins with a teddy bear, a tiny, plastic ornament that hung at the end of my toothbrush. I loved to watch it in the bathroom mirror, bouncing up and down as I cleaned my teeth.  One day, the tedd

I recently read about an actor, Aziz Ansari, who has unplugged from the internet and rejoices in the freedom it’s given him, not only in time, but in his choice of activities.  “I’m reading like three books right now.” (“People,” The Week, Sept. 2017, pg. 10.)  Of course

Like sand in an hourglass, Donald Trump continues to turn the world upside down in the hope of returning the country to the past.   In the footsteps of former president, Ronald Regan, he uses his proposed budget to starve from existence the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and