by Sheila Weller | Nov 6, 2021
Editor’s Note: Last month, UCLA announced that Barbra Streisand has donated funds to create the Barbra Streisand Institute, which will include four research centers–one in each of these fields: truth in the public sphere; the impact of climate change; the...
by Hillary Quinn | Oct 7, 2021
When my daughter was two, I made her a Cinderella’s castle birthday cake. I went all out; it had two tiers and translucent fruit leather windows, rock-candy diamonds, a Hershey-bar moat, and shimmering turrets fashioned from inverted, sugar-encrusted ice-cream cones....
by Anne Bayin | Sep 29, 2021
During the first peak of the #MeToo movement, a woman at my friend’s dinner party, asked, incredulous, how anyone could have had sex with a disgusting creep like Harvey Weinstein for years, repeatedly, and never tell? She didn’t get it. Not me. I totally got it, and I...
by Densie Webb | Jul 16, 2021
Like many women her age, my twenty-something daughter is not afraid to show off her midsection; she’s comfortable in low-slung jeans, bikinis, hip-hugging shorts, whatever. Sometimes I look at her and think, “Was my stomach ever that flat?” But I know the...
by Janice Eidus | Jul 9, 2021
I was sitting in my Manhattan apartment recently with eight of my pals when the subject of friendship came up. Specifically, why some close female friendships last through thick and thin, ups and downs, sickness and health, trauma and heartache, while others don’t...