I had been trying to write my story for several years, haunted by one friend's comment. "Great," he had said to me, drinking a cup of coffee in my kitchen, "another memoir about a mother who dies from cancer."
Deborah Tannen | Posted 09.24.2009 | Living
Stamberg began our conversation by asking, with a mischievous twinkle that I could see in her eye and my sisters could hear in her voice, "So ladies, which of you was your mother's favorite?" While I hesitated and Naomi responded thoughtfully, "Oh, that's a good first question," Mimi quipped, "Obviously me. No question."
Deborah Tannen | Posted 11.16.2009 | Living
A sister is someone with whom you can laugh and be silly like when you were kids; who still sees in you the child you were; who shares your past and your memories of it.
Carine Fabius | Posted 10.18.2009 | Living
I'm a sister and I can vouch for those ridiculous assumptions we often make about those closest to us.
Carol Felsenthal | Posted 06.14.2008 | Politics
In the mid 1980s, I called Lynne Cheney to talk about her book Kings of the Hill, co-written, or so the cover indicated, by her husband. It turns out he forgot he ever wrote it.
Liz Welch | Posted 10.20.2009 | Books