20 Favorites of 2020
I've once again chosen my most popular posts of the last year, based on your views, comments, Tweets, and Facebook likes/comments.
I always do appreciate your support and your comments - what was your favorite? — Sallie
Firebrand in the Trojan Horse and the Half Step Strategy
I’ve had the singular good fortune to meet this past week a most remarkable young woman, Mara Zepeda.
Doris Duke is Born
What do I hope my biography will accomplish? Nothing less than a complete reconsideration of Doris Duke.
“The Swan” Launches!
I am so grateful to all my readers and potential readers and I look forward to being in touch with each and every one of you.
The Delights of Research
There is nothing like opening a file box, with some unknown’s penciled label at the top, and diving into an absolutely unpredictable collection of letters, notes, interviews—anything Doris Duke, in my case, decided to save.
Next Comes
I like to write about risk… and risk, by its very nature, seems best suited to shorter forms.
Being Needed Doesn’t Mean Being Well Paid
I was raised by one of the millions of women who then as well as now fill the most essential U.S. jobs.
How Libels Take Hold
Hearsay, sometimes passed down for three hundred years, sticks—especially if it is negative, and especially if it adheres to a woman.
Where Have All the Flowers Gone?
What destroyed the hopes so many of us had in the sixties and seventies, when the deep-rooted racism in U.S. culture seemed to have been… well, not uprooted, but at least disturbed?
Let’s Dance
Why dance now, when we are all wrapped to a greater or lesser degree in gloom, even despair, with worse times ahead?
What We Can’t Say Now
We need to define, and vigorously defend, the line between art and politics.