Anndee Hochman
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It’s a good thing we can’t get by on our own — who’d want to?
It’s because of my faith in feline educability that I am lying on the chilled ceramic tile of my kitchen floor, lifting the flap of ...
10 years ago
Race-based assumptions collide but do not combust on a Philadelphia porch
Race matters. It shapes our stories — innocuous ones that unfold on front porches, harrowin ...
10 years ago
The Amazon-ification of commerce, separating the makers from the takers
When I shop in the real world, whether on Main Street or Broadway, the blurring of boundaries makes me queasy. The more diverse the merch ...
10 years ago
‘Good’ and ‘bad’ don’t begin to describe Philly’s neighborhoods
"Lock your door," my mother would say from the wheel of her Opel. "This is a bad neighborhood."
10 years ago
ListenChanging my mind about getting married — but don’t call me ‘wife’
Six months ago, in this very space, I wrote about saying no to marriage. Though the Supreme Court had struck down DOMA, though my partne ...
10 years ago
A ‘cure’ for menopause: Embrace change, fragility, being human
I’m 51, the average age for menopause in the Western world. For a decade, my doc has been advising me to accept “all kinds of ...
10 years ago
In defense of a ‘Bad Mother’: Debra Harrell’s village fails her
It takes a village to shame a mother. That’s what happened this month in South Carolina, where 46-year-old Debra Harrell was ...
10 years ago
Down and dirty with the arugula: A city girl goes to the farm
It doesn’t get more local than this. I am kneeling in moist soil next to six rows of baby lettuce mix — an earthbound sala ...
10 years ago
What if we let kids learn by asking questions rather than taking tests?
Considering the new SAT, education seems incredibly backward: the idea that answering test questions should constitute learning. What if ...
11 years ago
Still marching … but not down the aisle
Suddenly, to be an unmarried gay or lesbian couple, especially like my partner and me, together for 23 years and happily unwed, is to be a renegade, even among our queer kin.
11 years ago