Last week the White House held its first United State of Women Summit in Washington D.C. to strategize about gender equality. Every woman knows the problem, in most cases intimately. My Uber driver, Houma, reminded me of this on the…
Read MoreNew Yorkers get a bad rep for being selfish and unkind. But last week, three people jumped onto the subway tracks at the City Hall R station to save a man who had fallen on the tracks. A CUNY graduate…
Read MoreMy pastime of late is reading the New York Times. It reports on issues that both delight and confound me. Among the more confounding, hate crimes, specifically the under-reporting of them. A disturbing example; the hate crime against Ms. Barbara…
Read MoreEveryone knows the famous Marshmallow Test pioneered in the 60’s. Put a marshmallow in front of a kid. Tell them they can eat it NOW or they can get 2 marshmallows if they WAIT to eat it later. If the…
Read MoreIf you are not helicoptering your way to the Hamptons on summer Friday afternoons, you are probably a worker bee who takes the subway to work. Summer in NYC is an extreme sport. How do you dress for it? Subway…
Read MoreIt is easy to make someone “the other.” I learned this recently in a class on Intersectionality. Race, class, gender, and whatever else we see as forming our identity, “intersect” to create our unique way of looking at the world.…
Read MoreIn economics, a beggar thy neighbor policy involves one country fixing their economic problems by making some other country’s problems worse. President Obama just told G-7 countries it is what shouldn’t be done in a slowing global economy. We don’t…
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