My husband Jon, a molecular biologist and social activist in science, was 85 years old when in 2020, we received his diagnosis of early Alzheimer’s disease. Since then, I‘ve been writing about our experience, as I seek perspective on it. I wrote these personal essays in the hopes that they will be shared widely. Sincerely, […]
When my mother was 67, she lost her voice forever – or did she? My mother valued conversation. She loved getting people together to share perspectives on anything from the existence of God, to the ideas of George Bernard Shaw, to whether it was okay to kill of animals for food or sport. Back when […]
Bringing up Boys Not to Be “Men” I’m sharing my still relevant 1980s article in Sojourner: The Women’s Journal, although I’m now aware that I interviewed only white women, leaving out important voices. “Ha ha, I’m a boy,” Molly Lovelock is sure her son Timothy cried out on the day of his birth. It can […]
Here are a dozen fiction and non-fiction books that my husband Jon and I read this summer and want to share. We read most of them during two Reading Weekends, when we go away to simply read. Here’s what we read in a sweet little B & B called Acorn’s Hope Great Barrington (MA). […]
Howard Zinn − historian, activist, and a member of the National Writers Union and the Boston Chapter for almost 20 years died on January 27, 2010. But his life and writing will inspire grassroots activists for many future generations.
Sarah Solomont feels stuck. She blames her house — it drives her crazy. “There’s too much stuff,” she says. “I can’t breathe.”
“Here’s my list,” my husband says, thrusting a computer printout at me. “Where’s yours?” “No lists,” I say firmly.
I slip into the aisles of the textbook department, shoulders hunched. I’m feel like an interloper, intent as I am on raiding the inventory meant for college undergrads. Clearly, I’m no undergraduate: that was decades ago. Yet I am drawn to this place. At least twice a year I wander its aisles, looking for what […]
My son is in love and engaged to be married. Trouble is, he wants the two families to fall in love as well.
