The Gift of 2006
December 29, 2006 by Patricia Yarberry Allen, M.D.
by Patricia Yarberry Allen, MD It is so easy to focus on the things that go wrong on a daily basis — the petty annoyances of daily life — and yet so oddly difficult to recognize the joys. I am often invited into the lives of people who are no longer pain free. They may [...]
Read More »Resolution Redux
December 29, 2006 by Laura Baudo Sillerman
by Laura Sillerman At this age, I feel as though I’ve made them all: Lose 15 pounds (done), master the yoga headstand (undone), learn to speak Italian (undone), forgive those I’ve yet to forgive (mostly done), do the NYC Marathon (ah, yes, done, with dear Connie who died just a year ago — I’m so [...]
Read More »Notes from New York: Good Fortune
December 28, 2006 by Women's Voices For Change
Agnes Krup, a literary agent, had a not-so-wonderful Christmas in 2004. This year, she is embarking upon a travel adventure in New York City, where she lives. Notes from New York will be posted throughout the week. So much for making plans for a week of vacation alone at home. My daughter is back with [...]
Read More »The Plunge
December 28, 2006 by Laura Baudo Sillerman
by Laura Sillerman I went in, in my bathing suit with big cotton pants rolled up to my knees. Went into the 47-degree December ocean. Went in with 740 other screaming, laughing, leaping members of the town who were raising money for a charity that recognizes that illegal immigrants are the only way the lawns [...]
Read More »Notes from New York: Lines, Crowds and “Thousands and Thousands of Paintings”
December 27, 2006 by Women's Voices For Change
Agnes Krup, a literary agent, had a not-so-wonderful Christmas in 2004. This year, she is embarking upon a travel adventure in New York City, where she lives. Notes from New York will be posted throughout the week. In the last two days, I have spent a lot of time on line, waiting to go through [...]
Read More »Voices in Verse: Carol Muske-Dukes
December 27, 2006 by Women's Voices For Change
Carol Muske-Dukes is real, but almost too good to be. Poet, essayist, novelist, and, above all, teacher, she is a woman’s woman. She is true to the poet’s obligation to pay witness to the truth. She is, on the page and off, most of who we all strive to be. The author of seven books [...]
Read More »Using the Feminine to Drive the Vote
December 26, 2006 by Patricia Yarberry Allen, M.D.
by Patricia Yarberry Allen, MD First "French Women Don’t Get Fat," and now a French woman may become the next president of France. Despite the fact that French politics have been controlled by men, almost forever, it seems that Socialist candidate Ségolène Royal (love that last name!) is not only running for president but running [...]
Read More »Dame Judi Dench’s Christmas Gift
December 22, 2006 by Women's Voices For Change
by Douglas A. McIntyre Judi Dench is onstage this holiday season playing Mistress Quickly in "The Merry Wives of Windsor." The production is at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford. As one reviewer said: "Miss Dench surpasses herself as Mistress Quickly — with song, dance and blank verse delivered in the blink of an eye [...]
Read More »The Permanence of Change
December 21, 2006 by Faith Childs
by Faith Childs Winter’s approach is a reminder of the impermanence of everything, of the constancy of change. Shorter days, darkness at five o’clock. Root vegetables and foods that fortify help to stave off the worst of the season as rosé yields to red wine, brandy and spirits, and Trollope replaces beach reading in preparation [...]
Read More »Firsts: A Christmas Apart
December 20, 2006 by Women's Voices For Change
by Agnes Krup Editor’s note: A diary of Agnes’ travels, a "vacation at home" in New York, will appear on Women’s Voices for Change the week of Dec. 25. Two years ago, I had to spend my first Christmas without my daughter. She was 5, and behind me lay what was an acrimonious divorce at [...]
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