by Janet Siroto | Feb 9, 2022
Our National Parks have been in the news for a lot of sad reasons (lack of funding among them), but here’s some upbeat news: Betty Reid Soskin, age 100, is on the job as our nation’s oldest and most amazing park ranger. Yup, you’re read that right. Betty Reid...
by Janet Siroto | Nov 16, 2021
Maybe everyone is nostalgic for the decade they grew up in, but for me, the ‘70s rocked. I have fond memories of paging through the phone-book-sized Sears Roebuck Christmas catalog (phone books…what a quaint notion), lying splayed on my belly on a shag rug for a...
by Janet Siroto | Aug 8, 2021
Editor’s Note: This month, when many of you (we hope) are spending time on a beach, we want to remind you to keep an eye out for sea glass and to remember this poignant and fitting poem by Bernadette Noll. Here, we republish our story about the author. *** When...
by Janet Siroto | Jul 28, 2021
Editor’s Note: Jocelyn Bell Burnell is in the news again. The New York Times has just released a mini-documentary about her work and the great snub of being overlooked for a Nobel Prize. It’s a 15-minute watch that explains a lot about how women’s...
by Janet Siroto | Jul 26, 2021
On a Friday morning not too long ago, I had a rash that was making me itch to the brink of insanity, and I was pretty sure I couldn’t survive the upcoming weekend. My regular dermatologist was booked up, but I was told I could see an associate if I could hustle...