Women's Voices For Change

Updated: Benjamin and Sotomayor Set to Change .. Well, Everything

For updates on Day Two of the Senate hearing on Sotomayer, scroll to the end of this post.) This week, two 53-year-old women were front and center on the national stage: [...]

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The Compass Rose: Talking to Strangers

In the newest installment of her column "The Compass Rose," Ainslie Jones Uhl writes about California's Proposition 8 banning same-sex marriage, her own civil marriage in Brussels, and how random conversations with strangers can yield unexpected, important insights.

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You’re perfect – now change! Repurposing Your Life After 40

Recently I came face to face with an overwhelming question, one that hundreds of thousands of other women are facing (or soon will): When did your perspective change from a [...]

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Anesthesia and Amnesia: Wisdom From Age To Just Deal With It

This morning I had a visit with my very competent oral surgeon on New York City’s Central Park South. Since I would receive sedation for the procedure, I was fasting [...]

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Tenacious Diary #2: The Young Bear

My husband, Patrick, and I, with our two cats, are aboard our 50-foot cutter-rigged sailboat Tenacious, heading north along the British Columbia coast for the summer. Last week we were [...]

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Morning Blessings

I began this morning as I usually do, counting my blessings, before getting out of bed. I am a woman of Irish/English/Scottish ancestry, whose forebears came through the Cumberland Gap [...]

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A musing on remarriage

Breakfast this morning with the widower of a friend now nearly four years gone. He told me he’s getting married in the fall. Of course, I wished him well and [...]

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Poetry Friday: David Tucker, “Women of My Childhood”

David Tucker is the deputy managing editor at the Newark Star-Ledger, in Newark, N.J, where he was part of the Ledger team that won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking [...]

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MTA’s Helena Williams Moves Eight Million a Day and Still Cooks Sunday Pasta

Very little media fanfare greeted the May appointment of Helena Williams as interim CEO of New York’s Metropolitan Transit Authority, which moves millions of people a day on dozens of [...]

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Tenacious Diary #2: The Young Bear