With the holidays at hand, I always ponder on ways to say “thank you” to people who have made my life easier throughout the year.  Before I moved into a retirement center, the letter carrier always received a card with a cash remuneration, despite the objections of the Post Offic

One of my readers sent me a blog written by Charlotte Iserbyt, who served in the U. S. Department of Education during the Reagan Administration.  Her remarks offered strong words about Charter Schools and H-1B visas which allow these schools to hire teachers from abroad while qualifi

Despite the increased number of women on the Supreme Court and one black and one Latin jurist, there is a remarkable sameness in the backgrounds of the members.  So writes, Dahlia Lithwick in a recent essay. (“Nine of a Kind,” by Dahlia Ltihwick, New Republic, Nov/Dec 2014, pgs.

Some people may not know that Margaret Sanger, champion of a woman’s right to choose in the early 20th century, was opposed to abortion.  She felt the procedure too much endangered the life of the woman so she promoted contraception instead. (“Women Before Fetuses” by Rebecca T

“It’s no surprise some cynical observers have concluded that the glass ceiling has been replaced by a ‘glass cliff.”  So writes Alan Murray, managing Editor of Fortune Magazine, as he notes that in the corporate world, women have faced a ”hyper-Darwinian struggle” to reac

I wonder how long I can go on being amazed at the way our wealthiest citizens collect paintings without regard for whether or not the work and its price have any direct relationship.   How valuable can a canvass covered with paint be?  All things being relative, I admit an object�

I’ve long been a fan of writer, Edith Wharton, so when I came across  a reprint of her essay, first published in March 1938, naturally I stopped to read it.  In the course of her remarks, she made a number of observations, some of which were curious.  What, for example, did she m

The second round of auditions for my play, Woman on the Scarlet Beast, came two weeks after the first.  Though the director, Cassandra Schwanke, thought we had found our leading lady in the earlier audition,  I wasn’t so sure.  The woman she favored was too young.  Somewhere, th

What was touted as a debate, turned out to be a love-in as Judith Shulevitz and Rebecca Traister reviewed the gains and losses of the feminist movement. (We Are All Feminists Now,” by Judith Schulevitz and Rebecca Traister, New Republic, 9/28/14 pgs 14-23.)  While the goal of total

Recently, Pope Francis issued a statement which not only accepted science’s “Big Bang” theory on the origin of the universe but embraced Darwin’s theory of evolution as well. He concluded that neither of these suppositions contradicted the idea of divine intervention. On the c