Getting gritty

I wasn’t quite sure how all my exposure to culture last week was going to converge in a column, but I was pretty certain it would. This one is ultimately about life’s messiness, but it’s got some friendship, a New York Times article by Luis Negron,...

Quotable

Love this writer tidbit from Lucas Kavner’s Huffington Post interview of Tim Kreider, whose excellent New York Times piece called “The Busy Trap” went crazy viral last week: Whether he’s examining a complicated, frustrating relationship with a...

She’s just shy

The nugget of treasure found in my Sunday New York Times yesterday was an opinion piece about shyness and introversion by Susan Cain. The article — called Shyness: Evolutionary Tactic? — was so illuminating. It helped explain some of my own life...

Life coaching Ginni Thomas

Sometimes I just can’t let something go. This Ginni Thomas episode of asking Anita Hill for an apology just floored me, perhaps because that period in our history is so ingrained in my mind. Also, I recall how eloquently then-New York Times columnist Anna...

‘Sisters’ in solidarity

Bart Stupak’s comment about nuns apparently hit a nerve with not just me, but New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd: We might have to bang Bart’s head into a blackboard a few times before he realizes that in a moral tug-of-war between the sisters and the...