
My Brilliant Career
Two roads diverge in a wood. The word was, you pick one or the other: love or work.
15 Dec 20218min

Materialism
Sometimes, when I am feeling particularly out of sorts, I imagine how my day or week would look to me if I were a materialist. That makes me feel better, because I remember that I’m not one.
10 Dec 20218min

Romantic Love
Some years back I attended a wedding at a fashionable Manhattan club. Le tout New York was there. The bride was a long-stemmed American beauty, highly thought of in her profession. The groom was on...
7 Dec 20216min

Death
What work does the fear of death do in our lives?
3 Dec 20217min

Desire
Desire is the motor of every life.
1 Dec 20216min

Cool
It is a fact of social life – perhaps a bizarre fact – that needful and strenuous efforts can be overshadowed by someone, anyone, who is dubbed “cool.”
26 Nov 20215min

Sex Appeal
Is it a good thing? A subversive thing? A morally neutral thing?
24 Nov 20216min

Evil
I know it sounds funny to say, in a “non-advice column” for and about women, but the most evil people I have known personally were women.
19 Nov 20216min



















