The Look
Editor’s Note: This Transcending Borders post is from a woman who, like many of us, knows that there are things that divide us. What’s more important is what we do, great or small, to bridge the...
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The Real War
The last two episodes of “Law and Order: Special Victims Unit” that I saw really got to me. Both started with rapes – one particularly violent and disturbing because it took place in a mental...
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I Didn’t Go To Woodstock
I didn’t. I should have and I could have but I didn’t. Here is the sad tale. I had been living in Chicago for a year and I had made some new friends. We had been running around having fun all that...
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Too Old
I left two jobs in the past ten years because of age discrimination. My position had been eliminated from one company but I could not help but notice that many of my fellow ex-employees were over 40...
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The Diagnosis…Now What?
One night a few years ago, I noticed an ad on the Internet asking “Could You Have Lupus?” I took the quiz and answered the questions and the results were, talk to your doctor, you may have lupus. No,...
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Getting Back Into the Pool: Online Dating – A User’s Perspective, Part I
Part One: “The Basics” Fellas, can I speak to you a second? This online dating thing….we’re trying it out and hoping to meet someone we really like. You are too, right? It has its ups and downs and...
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Getting Back Into the Pool: Online Dating – A User’s Perspective, Part II
Part Two: Do’s and a few “Please don’ts!” In part one, I covered the basics. Let’s move on. Instant messages….they can be fun. It’s a great way to get to know someone, isn’t it? You can chat online...
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The Good Wife
Why is everyone piling insult upon the injury in Holly Petraeus’ life? Because she doesn’t look like a hot young model? Because she looks like a 50+ year old woman who raised her family and moved...
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Talking About Race: “It’s All so ‘Vexifyin’”
I remember it was a warm day and I was sitting in the dog park near my apartment on Camp Street. My dog Molly was running about and I was just sitting there on the fountain, thinking and watching...
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The Cover of the Rolling Stone
So many people have their undies in a knot over this week’s cover of Rolling Stone magazine. The Boston Bomber, the young kid from Uzbekistan who bombed the Boston Marathon is on the cover. People are...
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Ain’t No Love
Is there really more racism? Or has it always been here but just on the DL? Are more racists emboldened because of their anger at our first African-American president? Or was it there and nobody said...
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