Health

Dr. Pat, Hormone Therapy Gave Me My Life Back patallen

Dear Dr. Pat,
I read your medical advice to menopausal women, and I have a sense that you are not a big fan of hormone therapy. I am now forty-nine years [...]

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Dr. Cecilia Ford: When Is Enough Enough? Cecilia Ford Ph.D

In response to Dr. Allen’s visual assault by an overexposed jogger the other morning, I have to say that it seems true: No lower limit has been discovered as far [...]

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Kathleen O’Brien: With Cancer, Some Days You’re Lady Liberty, and On Others…. obrien

Kathleen O’Brien has been a journalist for three decades. Her long-running column for the Newark Star Ledger “looks at life from the kaleidoscopic perspective of wife, mother, taxpayer, commuter and [...]

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Recent Articles

Fourth of July Poetry Friday: The Truth is Marching on howe_julia

We last mentioned Julia Ward Howe in connection with Mother’s Day, and her work in campaigning for a “day of peace” to heal from the Civil War.  But many, if [...]

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Toto, I don’t think we’re in Kansas anymore… kathyrogers

The state of California will issue IOUs to its business vendors, students awaiting financial aid payments, and taxpayers expecting refund checks. When I first read this story, I had to [...]

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Skinny Girls Don’t Have All the Fun sag-harborboat

My Way, “mine own” 23-foot sailboat, has been in the water for almost two months. But due to travel and other commitments, today is just the second time I was [...]

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The Arts

Fourth of July Poetry Friday: The Truth is Marching on howe_julia

We last mentioned Julia Ward Howe in connection with Mother’s Day, and her work in campaigning for a “day of peace” to heal from the Civil War.  But many, if [...]

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Jackson and Sanford: Consider the Women laura_baudo_sillerman_2

Jenny Sanford and Katherine Jackson. Did we even know their names before last week? Can we connect them by anything other than the point size of the headlines surrounding the [...]

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Poetry Friday, Iran Edition: Forugh Farrokhzad, “why should I stop, why?” Forugh 01

These past two weeks, we’ve been as spellbound and horrified by events in Iran as the rest of the nation, paying special attention to the women often at its center. [...]

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The Compass Rose: Living Incognito Our new San Diego neighborhood.

One of the more surprising perks of our relocation from North Carolina to California has been the thrill of complete anonymity. I did not think I would ever see this [...]

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A Visit to Royal Ascot: Quail Eggs, Fascinators and a 17-year-old Hat ascotfirst!

(Yesterday was the final day of the Royal Ascot, the British racing event run personally by the Queen of England. In our quest to bring you the freshest news from [...]

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Poetry Friday: A Rainy Night With Sharon Olds and Elizabeth Alexander SharonOlds

On June 18th in Central Park, the rain held out long enough for poems from Sharon Olds, Thomas Sayers Ellis and Elizabeth Alexander, in a reading and round table [...]

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Jacki Lyden: Iran at Another Crossroad lyden

It seems like only yesterday I was driving, through the middle of the night, down Vali-Asr street in downtown Iran, behind the wheel of a blue truck we called the [...]

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