A Florida Judge recently ordered a man accused of spousal abuse to take his wife to Red Lobster. Yes, really.
Author: Donna Decker
Click! My Catholic School Report Card
At St. Charles School in the mid 1960s, Father Foley, our parish pastor, came into our classroom to hand out the report cards. He said the same thing every year: […]
Haiti One Year Later: Edwidge Danticat Wants Us To Create Dangerously
“Truth is trouble,” wrote Toni Morrison in the 2009 anthology she edited, Burn This Book. Trouble for a comatose public, for a corrupt justice system: Certain kinds of trauma visited […]
Bunion Blues
An insistent whirring sound drew me out of anesthesia and into the barbaric light of the operating room. While I had been asleep for a “minute or two”–as is protocol for […]
Remembering the Montreal Massacre
Many writers talk about the story that claws its way out from your core. I have such a story. It haunts me as it haunts women all over the world. […]
What Are You Thinking, Oprah?
Oprah, Oprah, Oprah–what are you thinking, girl? Jonathan Franzen’s Freedom is your book club selection, the first book of your last season? Really? Mr. “high-art literary tradition”? Remember him–he who […]
Women We’ll Be Reading 200 Years From Now
“Women I admire have gone through hell to get their work out there,” Erica Jong told us this past weekend. “I’d like to change that for you.” Despite its sale […]