Toxic Culture: The “Pence Rule”: Protective or Antediluvian Behavior?
By Karetta Hubbard, Lynne Revo-Cohen, Gwen Crider, and Dr. Chris Kilmartin In March, 2017, the Washington Post published a feature on Karen [...]
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Street Seens – Making Sense: A Recipe
“That makes no sense!” “What’s the sense of it?” Sense and Sensibility The Five Senses (sometimes including a Sixth, hinting at [...]
The Dowager’s Diary – Week One Hundred and Sixty-Nine
May 16-23, 1918 “New York Boy Added to Honor Roll.” A newspaper clipping looking as sad and wrinkled as the event it was [...]
Street Seens: Children in the Grown-Up Seats
Decades ago, three adults, the surviving siblings of our parents, boarded an Aer Lingus flight to Carrickone in County Tyrone: Bill, SJ to [...]
The Night Belongs to the Predators
In 1980, the year of my 50th birthday, I spent a month in South Africa, the first two weeks of which were for a work assignment. My wife, [...]
The Dowager’s Diary – Week One Hundred and Sixty-Eight
May 9-16, 1918 In the midst of a world war, there was a spot in New York City where Kate Roosevelt and her family could always find a [...]
Toxic Culture: Unearned Privilege
By Karetta Hubbard, Lynne Revo-Cohen, Gwen Crider, and Dr. Chris Kilmartin Unearned Privilege: Benefits accrued to a person, or groups of [...]
Judith Leiber, First Lady of Handbags
Text by Mary Gregory, Photos by Adel Gorgy The first lady of handbags, award-winning designer Judith Leiber, passed away last week at [...]
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