Category Archives: Flashbacks

Remembering The Past, While Living the Present—Writing “The Buffalo Bitch Trials”

By Linda | June 21, 2010

If you are a regular reader, you know that I am writing a book: The Buffalo Bitch Trials. I am, of course, the Buffalo “Bitch”. And proudly so. Just in case you didn’t know, the word “bitch” has been transformed from one of degradation to one of pride. In 1968, [...]

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A Room of Our Own—Breastfeeding and Moms Who Work Outside the Home

By Linda | May 27, 2010

Bend, Oregon is 175 miles south of Portland. Surrounded by the beauty of the pines and the silence of the desert, I am tapping out this post. If you read “On Being a Trophy Wife,” you would know why I am in Oregon at this past weekend. Yes, I am still enjoying the spoils of [...]

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Vaccine Safety–A Tale of Two Tots

By Linda | February 8, 2010

It was 1985. An 18 month infant was brought into my office. Her mother was concerned because her previously speaking daughter had ceased talking. (Today we might first think of autism, but 23 years ago that was quite unusual.) I had already placed tubes in her ears at age 12 months [...]

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Friends Help to Heal All Wounds

By Linda | December 10, 2009

Medical meetings have a structure, usually unique to the group. SENTAC’s is a long first day of scientific presentations, lectures and panels, followed by the annual banquet. Most of the time the banquet food is boring and tasteless, the company can be boring but usually not tasteless, and the speeches are definitely boring and [...]

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Meeting My Past and Facing the Future

By Linda | November 3, 2009

Can one live in the past, present and future all at once? What in my past will help to shape my future?
These are not questions pondered in a vacuum. No, events of this past week have given me enough fodder to fuel the fire of my passions. Alas, in either direction.
This [...]

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Silly Story in Today’s NY Times: Why Democrats Love Martha’s Vineyard

By Linda | August 14, 2009

I was emailed this link today by a friend who is coming to visit us next week. After summering for almost twenty years on Martha’s Vineyard (MV or “the vineyard” to us regulars), I thought I should respond to today’s NY Times blog post on MV. Highlighting the musings of many of the notables who [...]

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Blog 101: Pleasing Posts from the Past?

By Linda | July 23, 2009

From the political to the personal, from patient to patriots, I have written about many subjects and people. Revisiting my ruminations about ideas and ideals has both delighted and depressed me. I hope you find my picks if not enjoyable, at least interesting.
1—Accidental Crusader: These posts form the foundation of my political platform. Women physicians [...]

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“Telling Stories”—Getting Started

By Linda | July 17, 2009

During my 10 year legal journey, one of the fantasies that kept me afloat was a promise I made to myself. When it was all over, I was going to write a book. I was sure that everyone needed to know what I knew and to learn what I learned and to feel what I [...]

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When History Repeats Itself

By Linda | May 29, 2009

An interesting piece came across my desk (well really my computer desk-top) this week. One of the professors in the English Department at UB, Jim Holstun, had researched the history of the University at Buffalo’s response to gender discrimination. It seems that I am just one from a long line of agitating feminists.
It began back [...]

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Loss and Redemption

By Linda | April 2, 2009

Every year this week is generally a solemn and sad week for me. The anniversary of my mother’s death coincides with April 1, also known as April Fool’s Day, as you all know. Not really a holiday, this day marks a time when pranks and practical jokes lighten up the heaviness of the winter’s slow [...]

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