Personal Essays

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

IT 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.

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