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Excitement or Extortion? A Guide to Gifting
This is something that harks back to The Old Country of Broads, no matter our ethnicity or class. Don't kid yourself. A woman with an engagement ring so large it can only be looked at through a pinhole in a shoe box will, yes, register for a silicon dish-rack. Yes, she will. Don't laugh and don't ask what other silicon the dish-rack matches.…
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The Power of Women’s Humor: From Supreme Court Justices to Comedy Stars
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Are you "one of the boys"?
Until the reaction to hearing "You're just like a woman" is "You mean I'm clever, creative, flexible, dynamic and empathetic? Thanks!" we still have some work to do.
Girlfriends, let's start. Guys? You're welcome.
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What If Wise Women Wrote Commandments?
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Will Princeton Replace Match.com and eHarmony?
Will Princeton Replace Match.Com and eHarmony?
It’s not a dating jungle out there, Mrs. Susan Patton. It’s a university.
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Social Networks Like Going Back to High School
Social networking makes teenagers of us all. Lots of my ridiculously successful friends — some of whom appear regularly on television, give TED talks and are the kind of people who get harassed in restaurants by their fans (while my fans remain remarkably good-mannered and never, ever come over to introduce themselves or say a word) — will still not permit themselves to have a Facebook account because the thought of people unfriending…
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The Once and Future Mayor of New York
I lived in Manhattan when Ed Koch was running it. I met the mayor perhaps a dozen times when I lived on Lafayette Street in the East Village. These were not official meetings, you understand: they did not take place at fundraisers, book parties, or political conventions. I was a graduate student living in a one-room basement apartment, putting myself through school and working two part-time jobs in 1980s; I was not a valuable constituent.
Yet I spoke to Mayor Koch as often as I did…
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Here's the Answer - Don't Give Men Guns
When we look at the acts of almost unspeakable gun violence making news and breaking hearts, it doesn't take Rachel Maddow or Wayne LaPierre to target the fact that men are responsible. We don't need to hit the archives for historical documentation. What we need to do is this: We need to stop selling guns to…
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Broadwell + Petraeus: Younger Woman + Older Man
I’m interested in the larger issues raised when a young woman attaches herself romantically to an older man in a position of power.
True, Broadwell--who is almost 40-- isn’t so young that she flies half-fare or orders Happy Meals on a regular basis. Yet her youth captures our collective imagination because she represents the quintessential girl-who-goes-after-the-boss.
What is she (this quintessential character) going after when she goes after the idolized older man? I…
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Sonic Sisters
If I didn’t like the enthusiastic talk and lively conversation of young people, I would not have chosen to be a college instructor. If I didn’t like the nervous energy, relentless vitality, and shimmering intensity of college students, I’d have chosen a livelihood more valued by today’s culture, such as horse racing or fire eating. (Horse racing and fire eating are considered more dignified, and usually offer better retirement benefits, than academic…
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Bad Boyfriend - A Debt with Lifetime Interest
"Having an unresolved Bad Boyfriend issue is like carrying around old credit card debt." That's what I tell a friend who is having these issues.
It's like one of those store credit cards you only got in order to receive the instant discount but which still can show up and wreck your rating years after you believed all your outstanding emotional and sexual accounts were settled.
He's the male version of the siren, the guy version of the femme fatale. We're drawn to him like…
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Women, Binders, and Romney: Women's Humor Unbound!
Women, politics and office products: this is a fabulous combination, as we can see from the terrific women's comedy produced by real women about a real politician's—Mitt Romney’s—remarks from the last debate.
It doesn't take much to get women …
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Publishing Talk: Hey, Did Somebody Else Write My Book?
I've never regarded myself as an idea hoarder. You know what I mean -- one of those people who say: "I don't want to reveal too much about my work, because I'm worried about people taking the premise/title/idea for themselves."
To act territorial and possessive was pathetically unattractive and nerdy. And that wasn't me. Not until recently.
An idea hoarder? Me? The literary version of Hoarding:…
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6 Things You Need to Know About Changing Your Life
1. To change, to become different, you must need to change; you must have sought change for a very long time. A whim, a stretch of bad luck, a passing desire, is not enough. You have to know precisely what you need to change. And you must also know what you’re willing to give – or give up – for it.
2. Glimpses of consciousness come at exceptional moments and are rare – for much of life, we remember only bits of things, moments at best. When you were a…
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Publishing Talks: Women's Writing Today
Today, I'm interviewing Carole DeSanti (vice president, editor-at-large at Viking Penguin and a longtime champion of strong and original voices in fiction) about women and writing and publishing as part of my new HuffPost Publishing series.
I've known Carole since we started out in our respective professions.…
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Marry Safe? You Might Be Sorry...
Here’s my favorite piece of dialogue from the movie MOONSTRUCK; the adult, once-widowed daughter is telling her mother that she intends to marry again:
Rose: Do you love him, Loretta?
Loretta Castorini: No.…
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Exciting Times For Favorite Political Animals
Everybody seems to agree that politics is going to the dogs. All we have left to decide is how the dogs would vote.
People who haven't cast a ballot in an election since the Carter administration are, I recently learned, passionate about their pets' political opinions. They know their pets' position concerning Kazakhstan's development of nuclear capabilities as well as their views on Medicare cutbacks; they will to explain these details to you with almost the same level of enthusiasm…
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Gene Weingarten: The Pinocchio factor
The only truth to so far emerge from the presidential campaign is that truth no longer really matters; the lies and…
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20 Things Everybody (Else) Has Done (Too)
Just in case you believed you were the only one who ever had a particular idea or performed a certain behavior, be assured that (almost) everybody you meet has had a version of the following experience:
1. Googling one's self. For those of us over a certain age, this is a version of looking up your family name in the phone book. Done as a child, and still occasionally practiced as an adult, this ritual serves to validate a sense of self. It is also the first experience…
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Are You an Idea Hoarder?
Recently I’ve heard academics say the kind of thing I once heard only from wildly amateurish writers: “I don’t want to reveal too much about my work, because I’m worried about people taking the premise/title/idea/template for themselves.” I’m worried that scholars are being encouraged to be hoarders of ideas.
The academic version of Hoarding: Buried Alive goes something like this: You had a terrific, groundbreaking idea for a conference paper in 1997. Let’s call it the “Vortex…
Added by regina barreca on August 29, 2012 at 9:22am — 4 Comments
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