Women | Women
May.07.2013
Within our lives we encounter many different people, form serious relationships with some and not with others. Women as the author states often place a great “value,” on their relationships. Men are raised, “ to value independence and self-reliance.” Women are taught when younger that it’s...
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Apr.27.2013
Yesterday I found a yellowed piece of paper interspersed with some old photos of the house I was forced to sell a few years ago and a single Polaroid from my one and only wedding. Sometime in the past 30 years, I tossed the paper in the box, where it remained, unfolded and unread. My...
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Apr.10.2013
She came closest to being monarchy, so it is only apt that they promise her a funeral no less than Lady Diana’s. Britons are terribly excited about her last rites, and many seem to convey that it is to make sure she is finally buried.
Her death at 87 should have been a regular and, one may...
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Mar.29.2013
Not too long ago, I was interviewed for an article on strong female figures in literature. I was hard put to find any in contemporary realistic fiction. In our time, nearly all literary conflicts are internal and the strongest characters are shown with flaws and weaknesses so it becomes hard to say...
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Mar.13.2013
The One Billion Rising campaign demanded “an end to this violence”. Violence does not knock on doors and seek permission to enter.
It has been almost three months since the Delhi gang rape of December 16. Ever since, the media has been carrying articles or doing television stories on different...
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Mar.02.2013
Would you want your clothes to become transparent whenever you are aroused, instead of the usual signals? When innovative tech art enters personal territory it becomes both edgy and a matter of some concern.
Artist Daan Roosegaarde, who runs a social design lab, has diversified into...
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Mar.01.2013
MYTHIC NEW MEXICO
Long ago I had a romantic vision of growing old in the mountains of Northern New Mexico. Alone in a remote cabin I would sort through my boxes of writing, diaries, fragments, poems, stories, editing them for any possible future readers. I pictured myself at the age of...
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Feb.28.2013
Today, Pope Benedict XVI leaves office. He has the sweetest retirement deal on the planet and the comfort of becoming fallible again. One can only imagine the burden in knowing that in all official decrees, you cannot make a mistake. Now, he can screw things up with the best...
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Feb.19.2013
When I read about Helen Hunt getting a baby due to an ‘uplifting experience’, I adduced it must have been close to Immaculate Conception.
What transpired, instead, was a combination of superstition and auto-suggestion. The uplifting experience was a ‘lift’. On the David...
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Feb.10.2013
Some time ago
Someone told me I was too naive
I gave people too much credit sometimes
they couldn't understand
how and why I saw beauty and kindness around me and they couldn't
For a while it made me question why I chose to live my life in a particular way
and I could never quite come up with an...
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