A Great Year for Raspberries and Bears
There is something quite wonderful about sharing a raspberry patch with a bear. We are at the family farm in New Hampshire, just in time for the best berry crop in years. I have been picking as fast...
View ArticleGenerations
During the past six months, I have been too emotionally involved in watching my 93-year old father grapple with serious illness to write about my feelings. I won’t catalogue the list of challenges Dad...
View ArticleCollege at Home: The Achieve Degree at Sage
What happens when you are smart, and you are happy interacting through your computer, but being around a lot of people is very uncomfortable? What if you want to go to college to learn new things, and...
View Article9/11 Through My Daughter’s Eyes
My daughter, Corey, was 24 years old, and studying art at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts Museum School on September 11, 2001. I was in Chicago, Dean of the UIC School of Public Health, hosting a...
View ArticlePlanning for the next disaster
The storm has passed. We will be dealing with the flooding and its aftermath for a long time. In many cases, we are only beginning to assess the damage and figure out how to recover. Some have lost...
View ArticleCollege Affordability: The Dream and the Reality
The American dream of a college education for everyone who wants it and who qualifies has been the topic of hot debate around the issue of “affordability.” This has been translated into the concept...
View ArticleA 70-year marriage
On August 27 of 2011, our extended family and a few close friends gathered at the family farm in New Hampshire to celebrate my parents’ 70th wedding anniversary. My parents – Nevin S. Scrimshaw and...
View ArticleTragedy hits home
Again, and again and again. The words of Bob Dylan’s song “Blowin’ in the Wind” echo in my mind. “How many times…..?” How many times must we hear of a shooter killing innocent strangers? How many...
View ArticleFrom the Hudson to “Golden Pond”
One of the joys of moving to upstate New York has been discovering kayaking. Two years ago, Allan and I bought beautiful sleek kayaks, designed for larger rivers, lakes, and the ocean. We promptly...
View ArticleRequiem for the New York City Opera
The first opera I saw was at the New York City Opera, at the City Center, before the company moved to Lincoln Center. It was La Traviata, and I was entranced. I was a student at Barnard College at...
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