My husband, Ian, chose to have a vasectomy three years after we were married, when he was 35. Ian was worried about my health; I was getting infections from the contraceptive jelly and we didn't like the side effects of the pill. I started avoiding putting my diaphragm in before...
Posted November 5, 2010 | 14:46:46 (EST)
Whaaaa? Alexandra Paul is helping market the Volt for GM, a company she so vehemently protested in 2005 that she ended up in jail? Has the world turned upside down?
In the world of electric vehicles, it sort of has. Five years ago, EV activists and...
Posted June 7, 2010 | 16:00:27 (EST)
By talking pretty much exclusively BP's inability to clean up this latest oil spill, we are missing the bigger picture. Focusing on BP's recent sins means we can deftly avoid our own, so we blithely bitch about BP without a thought to what role each of us plays in this...
Posted March 23, 2010 | 11:59:41 (EST)
Nowadays, so many people run marathons that it isn't the amazing accomplishment it used to be when I first started running as a teenager in the late 70s. Back then, people thought you were overdoing it if you ran 6 miles. But on March 22, 25,000 runners of all ages...
Posted March 8, 2010 | 17:58:54 (EST)
I was in a 24-hour FedEx Office (formerly Kinko's) last week because I had to copy some tax information. I was in a bad mood because I am being audited. Having to copy receipts from two years ago irritated me. So I was chewing gum, in an attempt to soothe...
Posted February 17, 2010 | 11:00:40 (EST)
I am childless by choice. It was a choice I made when I was a kid, after seeing the UNICEF commercials of hungry, thirsty children in crowded cities, swollen bellied with stick legs, black flies on their faces. At 9, I told my friend Susie Hollander, "I am not...

Posted February 24, 2011 | 09:50:57 (EST)