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I have been struggling recently in how to process the cataract of bad news and retain equanimity—reactionary SCOTUS decisions (reversing a half century of promise for women’s autonomy, inexplicable overturning of reasonable state decisions to protect the public from...

This week’s news was permeated by unspeakable terror—in Buffalo, New York; Mariupol, Ukraine; Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The implacable drumbeat of all this violence leaves us almost inured to the horror. The repetition, the numbers, threaten to make us forget the...

As I watched the memorial service for Madeleine Albright, I was reminded of how often women embed messages in how they dress. Ms. Albright, of course, was well known for her pins—snails to criticize the slow deliberations of congress, snakes to jab Sadam Hussein about...

Memory’s Needle     “Memory runs her needle in and out, up and down, hither and thither. We know not what comes next, or what follows after. Thus, the most ordinary movement in the world, such as sitting down at a table...

Seriously, what does that mean—having it all? To me it is a particularly galling question because it is almost always asked of women, not men. I was struck this past week by the powerful presence of Ketanji Brown Jackson, testifying before the U.S. Senate Judiciary...

Thanks so much for taking the next step and reading my blog.  This is my first entry for this website.  I certainly hope that you will eventually be one of the readers of my memoir Experience is the Angled Road:  Memoir of an Academic (Koehler Books), launch date...