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Kayaks, crayfish and Cherokee chiefs, oh my! | community columns

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It’s July 4th, farmers! As Queen Elizabeth might say, the colonies have certainly been restless of late. Last week Miss Kasey and I went to Morgantown for a Downton Abbey tea at the Tea Shoppe. While sipping our respective pots of tea (blue jasmine for her and cherry almond for me), sandwiches, scones and sweets, … Read more

What my mother told me about America before Roe

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My world has always been governed by an automatic acceptance of reproductive rights that my mother, writer Erica Jong, did not have when she came of age. I was born in 1978, five years later Roe v. calf. Like most women under 50, even under 60, I have a hard time imagining what life was … Read more