According to a recent article by Paul J. Zak in the Wall Street Journal, people do want to be kind. All one has to do "to trigger this moral molecule is give someone a sign of trust" -- just like I do, every time I stand by the...
(2) Comments | Posted March 12, 2012 | 10:45 AM
As the girl walked by holding a tray of green cupcakes decorated with shamrocks, I knew St. Patrick's Day was nigh. She noted me eyeing them. She noted my red hair as well and asked was I Irish. Yet when I said I was, she said, somewhat disappointedly, "You don't...
(2) Comments | Posted February 10, 2012 | 6:30 AM
Do I have Syrian blood on my hands because I loved the country so blindly? I can't help but ask myself that question as I see the bloodshed in the streets today. I must have been naïve when I visited the country four years ago.
Friends couldn't believe my husband...
(2) Comments | Posted January 20, 2012 | 3:23 PM
It's amazing to me that I've become an older woman. Yet, now that I'm one of the woman featured in the blog Advanced Style, it seems I am.
A year ago I wasn't. But on a cold January Thursday, just as I was about to enter the cleaners with my...
(9) Comments | Posted October 28, 2011 | 3:24 PM
There I am standing waiting for the cross-town bus, my arms full of late summer vegetables and flowers from the Green Market, when I see him. Twelve feet or so away from me, fiddling with his Blackberry, is the boy who took me to the Senior Prom. He looks...
(1) Comments | Posted May 14, 2012 | 4:42 PM