The Bag Lady's Blog

Many have opined about tennis player Naomi Osaka’s treatment by The French Open. Days before the tournament began, she surprised the tennis world by declaring she’d no longer do press conferences, citing the effects of reporters’ questions on her mental...

A recent conversation with a young friend, who was wondering whether she was any good as a lawyer, as she lacked (unwarranted) confidence in her legal skills, led me to share one of my most important life lessons. Many years ago, while still in therapy...

LinkedIn recently released their annual research report analyzing the top skills needed in business today. Creativity, they reported, topped their list of in-demand “soft skills” needed for a post-pandemic economy. I hate the term soft skills. It’s my...

NO CHEERS FOR INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY WARNING: This blog is a bit of an angry rant. And it could get you down. So you might want to skip it. I won’t be offended. But I truly believe it deals with the reality of the ongoing challenges for women in today’s...

I’M NOT DONE YET Women have had to deal with stigmas and judgments throughout their lives. The woman who decides not to have kids: How selfish of her! If she wants to have children as well as a career: Something is going to suffer! Or, she is a workaholic...

It began in my mid-50s, when first confronted with the question, “When are you going to retire?” My initial reaction was to be insulted, wondering if I really look “that old”?!?!? I’ve never lied about my age. I have no problem saying I’m 63. Actually...

IN 1965, ANDRÉ-FRANÇOIS RAFFRAY, a 47-year-old lawyer in southern France, made the deal of a lifetime. Charmed by an apartment in Arles, he persuaded the widow living there that if he paid her 2,500 francs (then about $500) a month until she died, she...

Lou Grant: You know, Mary, you've got spunk. Mary Richards: Why, thank you, Mr. Grant. Lou Grant: I hate spunk. .....The Mary Tyler Moore Show Ruth Bader Ginsburg had spunk! "I ask no favor for my sex. All I ask of our brethren is that they take their...

It took a traumatic event to teach me one of life’s most important lessons which has helped me cope with every distressing experience that has come my way since. This includes the unprecedented reality we find ourselves living in today. That lesson was...