Personal Essays

  • los angeles times

    I'm a spy, a sneak, an intruder. Or so the feelings go as I clean out the office where my late father practiced psychoanalysis.

  • For a Friend, Answering the Call of the Wild

    new york timesIT began with a call. My best friend, Liberty, wanted to celebrate her 50th birthday by tracking wolves in the wild. I thought to myself, ''Isn't this precisely what the Discovery Channel is for?'' Then, she added, she would like me and seven other women to join her.

  • los angeles timesThey're Pioneers, and Adventurers, Matriarchs and Shtarkers . They Are My Gurus, My Personal Guides to the Existential Dilemma.

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