January 2012
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“So many mothers say they want their daughters to be independent, but what they...”
– Kelly Cutrone
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The Autumn of Joan Didion →
What Didion wrote about were the exquisitely tender and often deeply melancholy feelings that are such a large part of the inner lives of women and especially of very young women—and girls—who are leaving behind the uncomplicated, romance-drenched state of youth and coming to terms with what comes next….
Didion is the writer who expressed most eloquently the eternal-girl impulse, the one...
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“The most unhappy people in the world are those who face the days without knowing...”
– Eleanor Roosevelt in You Learn by Living
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The Bell Jar at 40 →
Like The Catcher in the Rye, it is a touchstone for a certain kind of introspective, moody teenager—the kind of teenager who used to listen to the Cure and, later on, Tori Amos, and who these days listens to—actually I have no idea, but she definitely has a blog.
I need to reread The Bell Jar. It was one of my very favorite books in high school but I’ve forgotten much of it.
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‘Can I Help You?’ Irks the Web-Savvy Customer →
On a Friday morning last autumn, a reporter walked into a Gap store at the Grove, a shopping mall in Los Angeles. A young, bright-eyed woman in jeggings and a side ponytail bounded over with a warm greeting.
“How are you?” she asked. “Can I help you with anything?”
Over the next 15 minutes, four other similarly young, beaming and bejegginged women approached with the same question. The first...
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Payment Set for Those Sterilized in Program →
The task force assigned the difficult task of deciding how much to compensate the victims of a North Carolina sterilization program, which was intended to reduce welfare costs and cleanse the gene pool of undesirable characteristics, settled on a number on Tuesday.
Each living person sterilized as part of the state’s formal eugenics program, which lasted from 1929 to 1974, should receive...
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Are You with the Right Mate? →
The early stage of a relationship, most marked by intense attraction and infatuation, is in many ways akin to cocaine intoxication, observes Christine Meinecke, a clinical psychologist in Des Moines, Iowa. It’s orchestrated, in part, by the neurochemicals associated with intense pleasure. Like a cocaine high, it’s not sustainable. But for the duration—and experts give it nine months...
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Gun Control: A Movement Without Followers →
Even the NRA agrees, for example, that guns should not be sold to people found to have serious mental problems. Yet many states fail to provide mental health records to the federal computerized background-check system. Twenty-three states have shown “major failures” in complying, according to a Nov. 15 report by Mayors Against Illegal Guns, which is co-chaired by New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg...
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A Family Learns the True Meaning of the Vow 'In... →
We should all be so lucky to have someone who loves us this much.
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