The 1980s was the time before privacy laws and barriers to semi-shield you in your discussions with the pharmacist.
I inched closer to her side.
“Mama?” I said.
“You’re a big girl now. Get in line and drop off your prescriptions.” […]
Reproductive freedom, parenting, and the medical community in the 1980s – a funny and true story. […]
A friend asked me to tell her story – how sexual harassment in graduate school continues to narrow her options decades later. […]
I didn’t know what the term meant – I don’t say things like that. As most of my friends and colleagues and a few attorneys know, I have been stalked, my car and home vandalized, and my professional reputation threatened for a year by a mentally unhinged person. During that time, I walked a tightrope […]
Over a decade ago, swayed by peer pressure, I tried bikini waxing for the first time. My friend warned me to go to a salon for the service. Being cheap and overestimating my smarts, I thought I would try it at home. “Do you think that’s wise?” she said. “Can’t be that difficult. They sell […]