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Paradigm Shift: From Competition and Destruction to Nurturance & Collaboration
I am almost 50 years old, and in my current lifetime I have lived through one of the most intense, rapidly changing periods of human civilization on this planet. The technological discoveries of the...
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Who’s Afraid of Women’s Writing?
Last night I participated in a panel discussion on Virginia Woolf and Margaret Mead called “Who’s Afraid of Women(‘s) Writing,” with Bard College of Simon’s Rock colleagues Maryann Tebben and Asma...
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Coming to Voice, Saving the Planet
Yesterday acclaimed psychologist Carol Gilligan paid a visit to the class I am currently co-teaching at Bard College at Simon’s Rock with theater professor Karen Beaumont, “Human Rights, Activism and...
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Starving women, American chic style
Barely have the baubles of the Oscars faded into Hollywood history, when the bleak news of the real world comes flooding back in. School shooting in a high school cafeteria in Ohio. Keystone XL...
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Work-life balance is not just a women’s issue
I decided to bite my tongue and wait to see the reaction to the recent Atlantic Monthly cover story by Anne Marie Slaughter on women and the work-life balance—I knew as soon as I started reading it...
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Women in Combat: Honoring the Androgynous in Human Nature
Hearing that the U.S. military is finally going to allow women in combat is something akin to hearing that the Berlin Wall came down. Something that had seemed so fixed and immovable is all of a...
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Looking for Valentinaville….
So far, my number one, all-time most popular blog post on Transition Times has been my 2012 Valentine’s Day post, “There’s More to Love than Cupid and His Arrows,” which was read by nearly 30,000...
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