Tag Archives: Forbes
Angelina Jolie and Audre Lorde: The Female Body
Yesterday, the top news in the morning was Angelina Jolie’s breast surgery. I wrote about it on my Forbes column. My thoughts were inspired in part by a book I read several years ago, Cancer Journals by Audre Lorde. In … Continue reading
A Gallery of Mother Cartoons
I thought you might enjoy some of my cartoons over the years on mothers. My mother made me laugh more than she made me cry–and for that I cannot thank her enough. Were she alive, I would watch New Girl … Continue reading
Blaming Women For Other People’s Bad Behavior
This cartoon appeared in my ForbesWoman column, with some links and some thoughts. The drawing is based on a tumblr site I saw recently, that has to do with a certain university teaching “How to avoid rape.” Amazing, eh? If … Continue reading
What’s So Funny About This Petraeus Affair?
We are witnessing the strangest set of events in this Petraeus affair. I was initially uninterested because I saw it as the same old same old. But while that is in some sense true, there may eventually be more under … Continue reading
Mad Men and Lilly Ledbetter
I’m reading a great book right now. It’s called Grace and Grit, and it’s a memoir by Lilly Ledbetter. Yes, that’s the Lilly Ledbetter for whom the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act is named (the first Bill Obama signed as … Continue reading
Parenting Gone Strange: The Time Cover
At about 9 am, I get an email from my editor at Forbes: “Want to do something on this?” she writes. I open the link and see the now infamous cover of time. My reply: “Yes!” My immediate question was … Continue reading
When Do They Serve The Wine? 