A vote for elite and educated

All this election talk disparaging intellectualism and education right on the heels of a national conversation about the value of education because of the film Waiting for Superman and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s award to the Newark school system makes me...

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...

Spam-o-rama

Words of advice to the apparently very bored folks — a.k.a. spammers — who persistently try to infiltrate my Web site by posting comments to my posts: ~ Try commenting on something I’ve written in, say, the last year. You really expect me to believe...

Real estate ‘disarray’

When attorney Frank Marciano told me about how the drastic changes in the real estate market have affected his practice, we decided to do a sitdown about it. The time I spent in his Hoboken office was illuminating and it made me all the more sad for those going...

Of journalistic standards

I find myself longing for the days when my boss, the editor-in-chief of the newspaper that employed me for 10 years, called me into his office and told me in no uncertain terms that if I joined the National Organization for Women I would never again write about...