September 11, 2001 was 15 years ago. In my estimation, those years seem to have passed quickly. In my young college students' estimation, that was an awfully long time ago. Indeed, the vast majority of them were in first grade on September 11, 2001. It is an interesting phenomenon to experience being the older person in a [...]
Many years ago I watched the movie Sophie's Choice and I have never forgotten the painful choice Sophie had to make and how it haunted her. The thought of ever being placed in a position like Sophie to choose the life of one child over another is horrifying to me. And yet, such things happened [...]
It all started where so many things start with me these days - in the flotsam and jetsam that mingle together randomly in my premenopausal brain. It is a very dangerous situation for someone like me to even become more fragmented and random - there is virtually no telling what the mixture will create from [...]
THE NEW FORTY 