Archive for February, 2009

For the last four years of my life, I lived as an expatriate US citizen in the small Arabian Gulf country of Kuwait. In Kuwait, I never wore mini-skirts in public and seldom bared my shoulders outside on the street. My high school prom was cancelled half-way through by the police, because girls in revealing ball gowns were socializing and dancing with boys at a late hour. Read the rest of this entry »

Betty Friedan stated: “men are not the enemy, but the fellow victims. The real enemy is women’s denigration of themselves.” Read the rest of this entry »

“Almost arrived. Car poorly” was the ominous text that landed in my inbox at the ungodly hour of 4:30 in the morning. As I walked out into the pre-dawn darkness, I was greeted by the sight of my co-driver pushing our noble steed down the road. One has to love traditional British understatement in times of trouble. To help those less mechanically-minded, our car had run out of electricity and had lost the ability to produce more, rendering it rather immobile. Read the rest of this entry »