by Nicole | Mar 13, 2022 | Observations
James Taylor almost sang at my wedding. During the waning days of winter in 1970, we were living in Cambridge with some Harvard Law students. Our friend Lou – a dropout from the Law School – had just gifted us a record album. On the cover was a skinny guy in a...
by Nicole | Feb 21, 2022 | Outlook
“Well, they began it.” the Jets “Well, they began it.” the Sharks “And we’re the ones to stop it once and for all…tonight.” the Jets and the Sharks I was just thirteen when I encountered the troubling reality that two people could share a singular experience and come...
by Nicole | Oct 4, 2021 | Outlook
Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty. David Hume In the summer of 2000, I was on the island of St. Kitts teaching in an international doctoral program as part of the...
by Nicole | Sep 30, 2021 | Outlook
I write this on the day before the October 2, 2021 Women’s March for Reproductive Rights, remembering my participation in the first Women’s March of January 2017. I have the best hat in the world. It is black and sags a bit to the side giving it the air of a living...
by Nicole | Sep 30, 2021 | Observations
Do I Bow or Can I Hug? I pondered this question as I sat on the ten-hour flight from Los Angeles to Haneda Airport near Tokyo for our first ever visit to Japan. Tatsuya had been a twenty-nine year old businessman when he joined our family briefly in 1994. He came as...
