Ask Dr. Pat: Post-Menopausal Bleeding
May 31, 2009 by Patricia Yarberry Allen

Dear Dr. Pat,
I am 58 years old and live in a rural area, about 100 miles from a regional hospital in the Southeast. I don’t want to identify the area [...]
Poetry Friday: Karen Alkalay-Gut
May 28, 2009 by Women's Voices For Change

Born in London on the last night of the Blitz, Karen Alkalay-Gut has been living and writing out in the open ever since. She was reared in Rochester, NY where [...]
Read More »Dr. Elizabeth Jelks on Eye Surgery and Dry Eyes
May 27, 2009 by Elizabeth Jelks

Dear Dr. Pat,
I am 54 years old and want to have surgery to correct the droopy skin of my upper eyelids and the puffy bags of my lower eyelids. People [...]
The Everyday Terrorists
May 26, 2009 by Sheenah Hankin

In my office I deal with terrorists every day. Their weaponry is words. They don’t torture me but daily commit cruel verbal attacks on others.
“He won’t talk to me,” she [...]
Book Review: The Private Patient, by P.D. James
May 26, 2009 by Elizabeth Willse

In The Private Patient (Knopf 2008, $25.95) P.D. James, who began her celebrated and prolific mystery writing career in her forties, has delivered an excellent Gothic tangle of a mystery. [...]
Read More »Supreme Court Buzz, Part 3: Obama Completes Sonia Sotomayor’s Ascent From a Life of Struggle
May 26, 2009 by Chris Lombardi

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Last night, President Obama called all three of the women we last mentioned as potential Supreme Court Justices and [...]
Read More »The Red Wheelbarrow: A Meditation
May 25, 2009 by Billie Brown

so much depends
upon
a red wheel
barrow
glazed with rain
water
beside the white
chickens.
So wrote the young aspiring poet William Carlos Williams in 1923. At his young age, how did he know?
At his age, [...]
Caught in the Act of Joy
May 24, 2009 by Shelley Singer

Holding fast to a well-deserved and much-derided reputation as a lover of show tunes, I want to share a few minutes of the raw emotion, over-the top-show-biz and pure joy [...]
Read More »Memories of Summer’s Beginning
May 22, 2009 by Patricia Yarberry Allen

Nothing has changed in my consultation room since I began the practice of solo obstetrics and gynecology there in July, 1983. I was in my second year of private practice, [...]
Read More »Memorial Day Poetry Friday: Edna St.-Vincent Millay
May 21, 2009 by Women's Voices For Change

The first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize, Edna St. Vincent Millay published her first book in 1917 — the year she graduated Vassar College and moved to Greenwich Village, [...]
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