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When ideas and issues grab me and won't let go, I write about them. If they are about girls and women and sports, especially baseball, all the better! My book, "Locker Room Talk: A Woman's Struggle to Get Inside," pops up every now and then.
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Let’s Row Together (opens the original)
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Greed is good.Greed is right.Greed works.Gordon Gekko, a fictional, unscrupulous corporate raider, made these claims in the 1987 film, Wall Street."The point is, ladies and gentleman, that greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Greed, in all of its forms; greed for life, money, love, knowledge, has marked the upward surge of mankind.” - Gordon Gekko, in Wall Street<figu
Let’s Row Together (opens the original)
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One day, not soon I hope, I’ll be the soil nurturing a birch tree.In my niece Allison’s yard.A white trucked, paper-bark tree like the trio of birches I loved as a child when they grew in the front yard of my childhood home in Amherst, MA.One day, I hope not soon, I’ll also be the soil into which my sister Betty plants a good sized cutting from one of her lilac bushes in her Cape Cod yard.Her bushes are direct descendents of the fragrant lilacs my grandmother planted early in the 20th century in
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Gloria is gone.Three words I knew I’d write one day. Though I’d hoped somehow this day would never come.For without Gloria, I do not live the life I lived, a sentiment I know many in my generation appreciate.Though, of course, Gloria would be the first to remind us that the revolutionary progress she embodies could not be — and was not — accomplished by her alone.It was driven by the bold, at times fractious, leadership of visionary women whose first names, on their own, evoke this game-changing
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We lost Dolly Parton.Suddenly.Sadly.Nations honored her as Americans grieved.Together.Mourning her loss, while reckoning with theirs.Marveling at Dolly’s gleeful generosity as millions of children worldwide read books her Imagination Library sends them each month.While her voice’s splendiferous spirit enliven us with her arrow-to-our-heart lyrics.Uniting us in ways little else is capable of doing these days.We feel her loss acutely even if we are among the millions
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On an October afternoon in 1977 I sat in the Los Angeles Dodgers’s dugout with pitcher Tommy John, his team’s player rep.I’d taken the subway to Yankee Stadium to the pre-Series workout so I could talk with players and the managers. The next night, the World Series would begin. This was the first World Series I’d been assigned to cover for Sports Illustrated, where I’d been on its baseball beat for two seasons.Tommy John wasn’t on my list of players to talk with. He’d be a starting pitcher, but
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