Letting go: I’m stepping into life’s next stage
By ELLEN GOODMAN - Friday, Jan. 1, 2010
BOSTON -- Looking backward and forward. I began writing my column when my daughter was 7 and I leave as my grandson turns 7. I began writing about Gerald Ford and end writing about Barack Obama. I began on a typewriter, transmitting columns on a Xerox telecopier. Now I have a MacBook on my desk and an iPhone in my pocket.
Women: Reflecting on four decades of covering a movement
By ELLEN GOODMAN - Thursday, Dec. 24, 2009
BOSTON --
I am time traveling these days because on Jan. 1 I’ll be ending my tenure as a syndicated columnist. While my colleagues are busily sizing up the decade with lists—Twitter in; Tiger out—I’m quietly sizing up the last four decades.
Hooked on shame
By ELLEN GOODMAN - Thursday, Dec. 17, 2009
BOSTON --
Ashley Dupre, you may recall, was the prostitute in the scandal that brought down New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer and threw another stand-by-her-man wife onto the pyre. At that time, the New York Post ran a one-word headline: “Hooked.” Now they have hired the hooker to be an advice columnist. This is like hiring Bernie Madoff as a personal finance columnist.
The ‘human’ factor missing in Copenhagen
By ELLEN GOODMAN - Thursday, Dec. 10, 2009
LONDON --
Think-tankers are making a connection between population growth and climate change. That’s more than the scientists are doing at the conference in Copenhagen.
When did people become entitled to their own ‘facts’?
By ELLEN GOODMAN - Thursday, Dec. 3, 2009
BOSTON -- “Truthiness” has exploded alongside a new media that is decidedly not mainstream, that flows into as many rivulets as there are cable channels, points on the radio dial, and unvetted bloggers. It’s now possible to find a group somewhere in Googleland that will agree with anything. Any outlier can find a tribe and a “fact”—Global warming is a hoax! Evolution is a fraud!—that reinforces his own belief.
Mammography message spurs backlash of mistrust
By ELLEN GOODMAN - Thursday, Nov. 26, 2009
BOSTON -- The scientists who surveyed the mammogram studies dropped new guidelines onto an unprepared public like leaflets from a helicopter of experts who didn’t understand the conditions on the ground.
Lipstick on a rogue
By ELLEN GOODMAN - Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009
BOSTON -- Remember back in the 1990s when Hillary Clinton described herself as the Rorschach test for how people felt about the women’s movement? Sarah Palin has become the latest test for shifting common ground and fault lines between sisterhood and sibling rivalry.
When a false choice is no choice at all
By ELLEN GOODMAN - Thursday, Nov. 12, 2009
BOSTON -- Is there an etiquette for lobbying at a funeral? Unseemly is too mild a word.
In pursuit of happiness
By ELLEN GOODMAN - Thursday, Oct. 29, 2009
BOSTON --
We are in the midst of another dust-up over research published under the (too) provocative headline: “The Paradox of Declining Female Happiness.”
A $250 donation
By ELLEN GOODMAN - Thursday, Oct. 22, 2009
BOSTON -- Now we face this tiny but telling test. The $250 moment. Wouldn't it be something if those of us on Social Security looked this particular gift horse in the mouth and said no to the Congress? And if a check arrives in the mail, wouldn't it be something if elders who are able, endorsed it to schools that are meagerly training the next generation of Social Security supporters?
Texas doing the gay divorce fandango
By ELLEN GOODMAN - Thursday, Oct. 8, 2009
BOSTON --
There is something charming about watching conservative politicians in Texas trying so ardently to preserve a same-sex marriage.
A question of health—and equality
By ELLEN GOODMAN - Thursday, Oct. 1, 2009
BOSTON -- It is becoming obvious that just having a female reproductive system is a pre-existing condition in the health care debate.
Now, where was I?
By ELLEN GOODMAN - Thursday, Sept. 24, 2009
BOSTON -- There was a time when I considered myself a champion multitasker. This, of course, was in the days when the Olympic event of technological multitasking was unloading the dishwasher while talking to my mother on the phone.
Obama clinging to civility
By ELLEN GOODMAN - Thursday, Sept. 17, 2009
BOSTON --
This is the Obama story. Right from the get-go, Americans were attracted to a man who was more collaborative than combative. Hillary was the tough guy in the primaries. McCain was the warrior in the election. Obama was the Oprah candidate who believed we could talk with anyone, even our enemies.
Grateful to have a job
By ELLEN GOODMAN - Thursday, Sept. 10, 2009
BOSTON --
The spotlight of the Great Recession has been properly on the nearly 10 percent of workers who are unemployed. But there has been far less said about the collateral damage on the 90 percent who “still have a job” but are looking at the empty seats. Fearfully. Gratefully.
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