The "Peachy Keen" Edition
Dear Readers,
It’s hard to believe that Platemageddon, the holiday formerly known as Passover, was only this past week! We had a very successful seder — a big crowd, tons of food, tons of singing and other amusements. Politics of the day were unanimously acknowledged but we studiously avoided any hurling of matzah balls, cups of wine, or anything else through a tacit, unanimously imposed détente.
I am coming close to the accomplishment of two long-term (and self-imposed) goals. The first is that I am coming up on the year-anniversary of my mother’s death, her yarzheit, which is next Friday May 5th. My father predeceased her by about ten years. I have had their accumulated photographs, government records, paperwork, and memorabilia in various places, boxes, bags, piles etc. And I am just about done sorting, thinning out, and organizing. What I will have left to do is final scanning and preserving, transferring to media that will hopefully outlast me, the worthwhile ones, anyway. I have unearthed everything from my great grandfather’s Russian Emigration papers, as in a document completely in Russian to let him out of the country as opposed to the Immigration documents which I now also have, including the passenger manifests from their ship’s crossing, citizenship papers and the like. I’ve also unearthed long-standing beefs between family members, with lawyer’s letters which are easy to follow, as well as all caps typewriter-written screeds, which are not.
If I do actually finish this, which like I say I’m pretty close to, I will be seriously, deeply satisfied. I’ve looked at the piles and boxes of a lot of this stuff for over ten years! Long enough ago so that the room in which they’ve been sitting has gone from: girl’s high school bedroom; to college back-and-forth room; to “I’m outta here, living on my own!” To “No wait, I’m back for Covid!” To make-shift office; and now to pretty spiffy actual office-guest room. Whew.
My second accomplishment is also a big one— I will tell you all about it when I get back from a biz trip. So I won’t see you next week but certainly will the next. Met Gala coverage, here I come! Due to its “First Monday in May” status and my “Most Sundays in All Months” publishing calendar, I will try to find a nugget you would not have been poring over for the prior 6 days.
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Happy Last Sunday in April,
The Pic(k) of the Week:
Beyoncé Showed Her Hair Getting Washed. Here’s Why It Matters via The New York Times
POLITICS:
How Close To Death Must A Person Be To Get An Abortion? via The Cut
BUSINESS:
Citigroup, Wall Street’s Biggest Loser, Is At Last On The Up via The Economist
JURISPRUDENCE:
What Harvey Weinstein’s Overturned Conviction Means For Donald Trump’s Trial via The New Yorker
Justice Department Agrees To Pay $138 Million Over FBI Failures In Larry Nassar Case via NPR
SCIENCE:
These Women Came To Antarctica For Science. Then The Predators Emerged. via Wired
A Simple Act Of Defiance Can Improve Science For Women via The New York Times
ARTS & CULTURE:
Shelley Duvall Vanished From Hollywood. She’s Been Here The Whole Time via The New York Times
What The Author Of ‘Frankenstein’ Knew About Human Nature via The Atlantic
I Used To Judge Women Who Got Boob Jobs. Then I Got One via The Wall Street Journal
Good News, Husband: I’ve Become A Trad Wife via McSweeney’s
SPORTS:
Women’s Basketball Could Be Huge. Will Men Let It? via Slate
Coco Gauff Is Playing For Herself Now via Time
OBITS:
Trina Robbins, Cartoonist Who Elevated Women’s Stories, Dies At 85 via The Washington Post
Lourdes Portillo, Oscar-Nominated Documentary Filmmaker, Dies At 80 via The New York Times
Helen Vendler, ‘Colossus’ of Poetry Criticism, Dies At 90 via The New York Times
Yale Law School Mourns The Death Of Trailblazing Professor Ellen Ash Peters’54 via The Yale Law Review
Roberta Karmel, First Female SEC Commissioner, Dies At 86 via The Wall Street Journal
AND WHAT’S NOT TO LOVE ABOUT…?:
Which Taylor Swift ‘Tortured Poets Department’ Song Are You According To Your Zodiac Sign? via Teen Vogue