Christine Ledbetter
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
- 2
- Latest publication
- Sep 10, 2026
- Outlet visibility, for Chicago Tribune
- Top 50K sites
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- Aug 7, 2026
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Christine Ledbetter: Dolly Parton and Gloria Steinem left us with the same lesson (opens the original)
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For many of us, the summer is ending in a paroxysm of grief. Perennials we believed would last forever have perished. Over mere weeks, we lost a legendary performer, a feminist trailblazer and a living memorial. I never met Dolly Parton, but I feel as if I knew her. Don’t we all? And while I heard her perform many times, it was her acting debut in the 1980 film “9 to 5,” playing a harassed assistant to a sexist boss, that endeared her to me. Because in the ’80s, before the Me Too movement, we al
Christine Ledbetter: Just like in the film ‘The Dink,’ pickleball was the best medicine for my husband (opens the original)
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If you aren’t among the millions of pickleball players, the fastest growing sport in America, watch “The Dink” on Apple TV to get a glimpse of what you’re missing. Jake Johnson plays Dusty, a former tennis prodigy whose career was thwarted early when he broke his wrist during a match with the for-real tennis star Andy Roddick. Now he teaches children at his father’s elite tennis club. In what his dad (Ed Harris) calls the decline of humanity, the club is being encroached on by pickleballers clam
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