Category Archives: Women

Playboy magazine sex on Campus 1969

Sex on Campus- A Playboy Guide to Where the Action Is

    With the dialogue about college sexual assault very much on the public consciousness, I decided to pull out this vintage Playboy from September 1969 -its Sex on Campus Issue. It’s as bad as you might imagine. In our

Playboy magazine sex on Campus 1969

Sex on Campus- A Playboy Guide to Where the Action Is

    With the dialogue about college sexual assault very much on the public consciousness, I decided to pull out this vintage Playboy from September 1969 -its Sex on Campus Issue. It’s as bad as you might imagine. In our

The Things We Keep

  I am a collector. I collect ephemera, old advertisements, newspapers, worn magazines, yellowing scraps of paper, the forgotten minutiae and stuff of everyday life that can reveal things we might not otherwise ever learn. My home is a paper

The Things We Keep

  I am a collector. I collect ephemera, old advertisements, newspapers, worn magazines, yellowing scraps of paper, the forgotten minutiae and stuff of everyday life that can reveal things we might not otherwise ever learn. My home is a paper

The Cornell Rape Case Made Me Tell My Story I’d Kept Silent For 52 Years

Some stories take 52 years to write. This week, HuffPost published one of the most difficult personal essays I’ve written. I was 19 when the events in this story took place. For decades, I couldn’t fully speak about what happened.

The Cornell Rape Case Made Me Tell My Story I’d Kept Silent For 52 Years

Some stories take 52 years to write. This week, HuffPost published one of the most difficult personal essays I’ve written. I was 19 when the events in this story took place. For decades, I couldn’t fully speak about what happened.

Glorious Gloria Steinem

It is hard to imagine a world without the glorious Gloria Steinem, A woman like no other who had an enormous impact on countless lives, including a shy suburban girl in the early 1970s. For many women of a certain

Glorious Gloria Steinem

It is hard to imagine a world without the glorious Gloria Steinem, A woman like no other who had an enormous impact on countless lives, including a shy suburban girl in the early 1970s. For many women of a certain

Mourning Dolly Parton

I can’t imagine a world without Dolly Parton. She was the best of us. The best of America. Dolly transcended all the divisiveness, politics, and cultural polarization that have deeply fractured us. Red state or blue state, we were all

Mourning Dolly Parton

I can’t imagine a world without Dolly Parton. She was the best of us. The best of America. Dolly transcended all the divisiveness, politics, and cultural polarization that have deeply fractured us. Red state or blue state, we were all

Vintage baby photo 1920s

Picturing the Past -A Century Old Photo and The Stories It tells.

In 1926, while flaming youth roared and thousands mourned the death of Rudolph Valentino, my grandparents, Sadie and Arthur Joseph, were overjoyed at the birth of their second daughter, Betty Francine, my mother. Always a joyous Bastille Day Birthday, this

Vintage baby photo 1920s

Picturing the Past -A Century Old Photo and The Stories It tells.

In 1926, while flaming youth roared and thousands mourned the death of Rudolph Valentino, my grandparents, Sadie and Arthur Joseph, were overjoyed at the birth of their second daughter, Betty Francine, my mother. Always a joyous Bastille Day Birthday, this

Platner Must Exit

We need a change STAT! The Democrats are on life support, and all they can offer up is a guy with a Nazi tattoo and a string of sexual abuse accusations. C’mon, Man! We need a reboot. We need a

Platner Must Exit

We need a change STAT! The Democrats are on life support, and all they can offer up is a guy with a Nazi tattoo and a string of sexual abuse accusations. C’mon, Man! We need a reboot. We need a

My Mother’s Love Grew in My Garden. It Still Does

  A few weeks ago was my mother Betty’s yartzeit. 18 years. My mother has now been gone the length of my entire childhood. Those first 18 years seemed like an eternity as I was growing up. A lifetime, in

My Mother’s Love Grew in My Garden. It Still Does

  A few weeks ago was my mother Betty’s yartzeit. 18 years. My mother has now been gone the length of my entire childhood. Those first 18 years seemed like an eternity as I was growing up. A lifetime, in

Our Skeletal State of America: When is Thin Too Thin?

Looking like a skeleton is no longer just for Halloween; it’s the latest Hollywood trend on the fast track to becoming a beauty standard. As award seasons and fashion week converged, shockingly skeletal women were walking the red carpet and

Our Skeletal State of America: When is Thin Too Thin?

Looking like a skeleton is no longer just for Halloween; it’s the latest Hollywood trend on the fast track to becoming a beauty standard. As award seasons and fashion week converged, shockingly skeletal women were walking the red carpet and

Mother

A Mothers Day for All

Mother’s Day is a complicated day for so many of us. For those like me who no longer have a living mother yet live with their spirit and love every day it can be a difficult day of longing, deeply

Mother

A Mothers Day for All

Mother’s Day is a complicated day for so many of us. For those like me who no longer have a living mother yet live with their spirit and love every day it can be a difficult day of longing, deeply