by Janet Siroto | May 30, 2021
A few years ago, when the first season of HBO’s Big Little Lies had just come out, I was dissecting an episode with a work friend. “You know which line I loved,” I told her. “The one where Reese says, ‘I love my grudges. I tend to them like little pets.’” “Yeah, her...
by Janet Siroto | May 4, 2021
Editor’s Note: With the sad news of Bill and Melinda Gates’ divorce, we’re looking again at a story we published about two of the world’s most generous female philanthropists. Melinda Gates’ influence will surely grow as she makes more of...
by Janet Siroto | Apr 29, 2021
The country is opening up again. People are stumbling out of quarantines and social bubbles like cave dwellers into the sun. Among the many questions about how people will adjust to a post-pandemic world is what will happen to the midlife divorce rate, which has been...
by Janet Siroto | Mar 6, 2021
Ten years ago, Beckett Graham and Susan Vollenweider sat down in front of a mic at a big dinner table in Graham’s house and started talking about Marie Antoinette. And they’ve been talking ever since–about Joan of Arc and Rosa Parks and every woman...
by Janet Siroto | Feb 28, 2021
Remember when you were in middle school and some cute boy paid attention to you, maybe looking at you a little longer than any male but your father had before? Didn’t your stomach go straight to butterflies, couldn’t you feel the blood warming in your...