Theatre Review: The Heidi Chronicles, by Wendy Wasserstein
While I was recently in San Francisco, I had the pleasure of seeing a production of the play, The Heidi Chronicles, by Wendy Wasserstein; performed by the Custom Made Theatre Company in its new theatre location, The Next Stage, at 1620 Gough Street. The performance will be running through to October 31st, and I would recommend it to anyone who is interested in seeing a play with a female driven role, performed astutely by Leah Abrams. If you live in the area, check it out. Or if you don’t live in the area, try to catch a production of the play the next time it comes to your town.

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When Mortality Met Kandy
Ten days before her fortieth birthday, a very dear friend of mine, whom we will refer to as… A Very Dear Friend of Mine (how about AVDFM for short? We can read it as Av-de-Femme), collapsed onto the cement floor of a small bungalow cafeteria in the middle of the Amazon. She later told me (she survived by the way - the cause was allegedly the malaria preventative medication she was taking, according to the Brazilian doctor she saw [one boat ride and one two-hour car ride later]), that as she was kneeling down on the floor (because she does tend to be a bit controlling; thus, she did everything she could in her power to prevent herself from officially “passing out”); She realized, in th

What is a Woman's Midlife Crisis?
Christmas, 1976.“Caren, you can’t be a doctor when you grow up.”“Why not, Mommy?”“Because only men can be doctors…but you can be a nurse.”This conversation really took place between my mother and I when I was nine years old. It occurred moments after I sat on Santa’s lap at Filene’s Department store in Boston. I had just finished telling him I wanted a doctor’s kit for Christmas. When my mother broke the news to me – that I was already excluded from a club, which, apparently only half of the population was allowed into; that my options had suddenly been limited; that all of the freedoms I had enjoyed u