Feeling discriminated against? Start a protest group. It’s the 2014 thing to do. Find somebody else in the same leaky boat, come up with an identifying adjective, add a hyphen with the word “American” after it — and you’re an instant lobby. So let’s hear it for Shorto-Americans, an undersung, underappreciated, underpublicized and under-about-eveything-else-you-can-think-of group. […] Read more…
Women’s
Flattery Will Get You Nowhere by Harriet Posnak Lesser
Ah, left-handed compliments. They’re the ones where you think you’re being complimented but when you get home you realize that the flatterer embedded a knife in your back. We’ve all received them; some of us have even given them. Here, Harriet Posnak Lesser, my decorous and ladylike mother, tells us how to decipher left-handed compliments. […] Read more…
A Story of Domestic Abuse and Where to Go if You or Someone You Know Needs Help
When I was a young newlywed living in an apartment in New York City, I became friends with a neighbor who was about my age. She had a beautiful baby daughter and a husband who I didn’t meet until we’d been friends for some time. She rarely talked about him. I knew his name and […] Read more…