Movie Review: The Book Club
In 1974, four women launched their book club by reading Erica Jong’s Fear of Flying. Forty years later the quartet improbably still meets every month. Why improbably? Sharon (Candice Bergen) […]
Author Archives: Anne Caroline Drake
IKEA: Caveat Emptor!
Buyer beware! For years, I have dreamed of having a library with matching bookcases. I chose IKEA’s Billy design because I could add bookcases as my library expands. Yesterday, I […]
Book Review: Luckiest Girl Alive
In The Luckiest Girl Alive, Jessica Knoll rips off the veneer and exposes the harsh reality of women who have been raped. The PTSD episodes. The pretense that everything’s fine here. […]
Honoring MLK, Jr.
The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King’s light was snuffed out by an assassin’s bullet 50 years ago today. Yet, his inspiring words live on. These quotes are anchors of wisdom […]
Bravo: Stoneman Douglas Activists!
Watch out, NRA! The Stoneman Douglas #NeverAgain student activists have raised over $4 million in four days. They received gifts of $500K from George and Amal Clooney, Oprah Winfrey, Steven […]
Shooting Rampages: A V-Day Tale of Two Cities
Do you love your guns more than you love your grandkids? Catherine O’Connor, an alert grandmother in Everett, Washington, was concerned about her grandson. He had allegedly held up a […]
Bravo: Eve Ensler and V20!
Twenty years before #MeToo, Eve Ensler broke down the silence on violence against women on V-Day, 1998 with the first production of The Vagina Monologues. It has evolved into a […]
RIP: Rosie the Riveter
Rosie the Riveter has been a feminist icon since World War II. Naomi Parker Fraley, the woman credited with being the inspiration for the poster, died in Longview, Washington on […]
Book Review: Unbelievable
Katy Tur was living the lush life in London and working as a foreign correspondent for NBC. She was in love with Benoît, who lived in Paris. They were planning […]
Book Review: Fire and Fury
It’s the civics lesson we all should have gotten in school. Nobody would allow these White House officials with their potty mouths to join their children for dinner. I had […]
