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Casting a wide net on family, humanity, politics and the search for balance from a former NY Times editorial writer. Author of "Saving Ellen: A Memoir of Hope and Recovery" (Skyhorse Publishing, 2025)
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Sanity in an unreasonable world (opens the original)
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When my two kids were young, the cartoon movie “Atlantis: The Lost Empire” (2001) featured an elderly, female radio operator named Wilhelmina Packard. At various points throughout the movie, Wilhelmina would say, slowly and sardonically, “We’re all gonna die,” betw
Who would I be without Gloria? (opens the original)
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“The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.” That’s long been one of my favorite quotes from the great Gloria Steinem. I wish it were chiseled in granite somewhere. Maybe it should be in skywriting. Steinem’s passing last week brought back memories that I have not thought about for years. One was how privileged I feel to have met her several times when I was on the editorial board of The New York Times, and had the chance to engage in conversation with her. She was kind, always
We should all aspire to be a Dolly (opens the original)
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One of the best headlines I scanned after Dolly Parton’s death sounded like it came from The Onion, the famous satirical news site: “Apocalypse Draws Near As Last Remaining Universally Beloved Human Being Passes Away.” In fact, it was from another satirical news site, The Babylon Bee, published out of Jupiter, Florida.Successful satire always has a ring of truth. For one moment, nearly everyone (including me) applauded a single decision of Donald
A return to my beloved island... (opens the original)
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Two weeks ago, I drove 450 miles to the island and area around Lake Ontario where I spent portions of every summer between the ages of 8 and 22. In my book, “Saving Ellen: A Memoir of Hope and Recovery,” I renamed my beloved island East Cliff Island precisely because if you google it, absolutely nothing, zero, nada will come up. (Since there are over 13,000 islands in the United States, it was no easy task to make up a name that hasn’t already been taken!)Please conside
A new label for the Trump White House (opens the original)
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I learned a marvelous word the other day that exactly describes the American leadership in Washington. The word is new for me, and it is wonderful because it offers one succinct definition showing why America is weaker today than it was on Jan. 19, 2025. It shows why President Donald Trump is not just the termite-in-chief gnawing at the very foundations of our democracy and American leadership. He isn’t simply running a kleptocracy, a form of government in which those in power, particularly him,
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