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When is a chicken sandwich a poison pill?
And when will white women embrace the power of their privilege?
Jun 18
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How do you know you know what you think you know?
In 1980, when I was 21, I moved to NYC from a suburb of Birmingham, Alabama, called Mountain Brook. Mountain Brook was known to have among the top…
Jun 9
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May 2023
Tsunami of stupid
Chatting with the checker at the grocery store the other day, and she told me about an earthquake off the coast of North Carolina that could cause a…
May 1
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Girls wear dresses and skirts
This was my first pair of long pants. It was my only pair of long pants until I got to high school, and I was only allowed to wear them when we went…
May 1
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April 2023
Love Thy Neighbor; Melt Thy Handgun
Never in the history of the world has anyone died by a bullet when no gun was present. Guns kill people. Period. The minute we decide to put a handgun…
Apr 24
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Join me on Notes
A new place to connect
Apr 12
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What happens in New Orleans…
It was a helluva day in New Orleans, February 1971. I was 12, in 7th grade. I was wearing my favorite polyester navy and orange tunic and bell bottoms…
Apr 11
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March 2023
The Arc of the Question Mark
He whispered in my ear at the first dress rehearsal. "Act short. Those heels make you too tall." It was 1979, and I had the great good fortune to be…
Mar 13
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Happy Birthday to Me
When she was a young starving actress, Barbra Streisand would sit at a bar in Greenwich Village and wait for somebody to offer to buy her a drink. “I’d…
Mar 3
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January 2023
LinkedOut
DATELINE Jan. 7, 2021 — I got an early morning call from a client asking me to review a message he had drafted overnight in response to the insurrection…
Jan 26
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December 2022
Flashback to 2008
Happy New Year! Anybody got a hat?
Dec 31, 2022
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Thanks for dropping by my new place…
Please excuse me while I rearrange the furniture. Substack is a new platform for me. It’s intended to be my writing desk — and a place where we can…
Dec 27, 2022
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