Tag: Feminism

For the Love of Dolly Parton

When I took a part-time job as a disc jockey for a country music station in 1984, there were some hard and fast rules. You always time your hour to get in the ads and mark them in the log. Songs in heavy rotation had to cycle through at least once during your shift. And…

14 March 2021
Saying Goodbye to Twitter Me: A Review of The Problem with Everything

For me, it happens when I go to the Twitter feed after some recent ‘problematic’ event or statement has hit the news. Immediately the folks I have chosen to follow, ‘influencers’ among them, stoke the little fires of irritation I might have felt and before long lure me into the Twitter-sanctioned indignation I should be…

11 January 2020
Why We Can’t Live Without Horseshoe Crabs

So let me tell you how I think with animals. I see an animal…say, the harbor seal I encountered once while running down a deserted barrier island…I stop dead in my tracks. Pull out my phone to take a picture…(natch)…and then time slows down. I’m aware of the wind, the sun’s position in the sky,…

16 March 2018
The Power Asks Us to Consider #WeToo: A Review

Naomi Alderman’s provocative new book, The Power, is more simply described without the definite article. Power, and how it infuses human relationships, particularly gender relationships, hums though this book like an electric current. And just like that current, it can turn fearsome and deadly in an instant. The Power is an acknowledged heir to Margaret…

23 January 2018