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Written with Patricia O'Brien, "I Know Just What You Mean" explores the power of friendship in women's lives. [ More ]

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Giving thanks in an age of anxiety
(11/22/2001)
''I'LL BE MAKING the green bean casserole,'' says my aunt with a slight hint of defiance. She waits for my familiar retort, my annual and hostile review of the 1950s dish that will take its place on my 2001 table.

Ashcroft's odd targets
(11/15/2001)
LET ME SEE if I have this straight. We have terrorists on the loose, anthrax wafting through the mail, and the Justice Department is in hot pursuit of ... terminally ill patients?

History's challenge to Laura Bush
(11/11/2001)
IN THE PAST few weeks, as I leafed through some newspaper columns that Eleanor Roosevelt wrote during World War II, I found myself charmed by one in which the first lady exhorted American housewives to save cooking fat.

The choices for Muslim women
(11/8/2001)
''I'VE BEEN called oppressed and depressed and repressed and every other kind of pressed you can imagine,'' says Milia Islam as she counts off the adjectives with an amused smile. The subject of such ''pressing'' concern is the head scarf that the young Missouri woman wears over her hair.

Beset by scourges from the past
(11/4/2001)
I AM SITTING here trying to parse the government's instructions. How do I go about my normal life but remain on heightened alert?