• April 14, 2021

Scouting…Ballet…Gender Gap

My younger sister and I were always pressed into attending some sports activity or Boy Scout ceremony in support of our brothers. And since those older brothers both attained Eagle Scout (highest) rank, that meant many ceremonies. So, we girls shivered at bean hole bakes in the winter or sweltered through hot Sunday parades at […]
  • February 19, 2017

Full Blown War

From “Boomerrrang” I’d put up this neurosurgeon’s arrogance for weeks, and I was simply having no more of it. Friends told me “Oh, just let him go…They’re all like that” (neurosurgeons, that is). In other words, it was sort of expected that with their level of skill, we in the public were supposed to tolerate […]