Lawyers with balls — Rachel Sklar National Post 07/12/2002 (In 2002, I went to Malta at the suggestion of some law school friends who were on the Canadian team heading to the Mundiavocat — the World Cup of Lawyers — and competing in the tournament. It was right after I quit practicing law but…

How to keep doing the work — For many, 2020 has been a time of increased civic awareness and involvement, whether we focused our energies on helping our neighbors deal with Covid, living more ecologically sound lives, joining in the fight for racial justice, or just devoting our attention to the election as if everything hinged on…

There are no two sides here. This is unprecedented and corrupt. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died, and, because it is 2020, we do not have the luxury of just mourning. Because it is 2020, even she did not have the luxury of passing in peace; instead, her final statement was an exhortation for procedural fairness in the Senate. “My most fervent…

Joe Biden’s selection of Kamala Harris as his running mate is a true lesson in leadership — I don’t know about you, but last week I was depressed about the Veepstakes. It felt like a redux of the bruising gender politics of ugly elections past. And then, suddenly, there was a pick: Kamala Harris! And my weltschmerz vanished — not just because Harris is a soul-liftingly historic…

That’s it. That’s what she wants. — Across all the mom groups I am in — and I am in a lot of mom groups — I hear gripes about time. Specifically, never having enough of it. These moms were used to having less of it than they wanted, obviously, but that was before the global Coronavirus…

“Bridgesplaning” might be annoying, but sometimes it has a purpose — There’s a classic Saturday Night Live sketch called “The Chris Farley Show,” in which Chris Farley fumbles his way through an interview with the music legend Paul McCartney: “Remember when you were with the Beatles, and you were supposed to be dead?” asks Farley. “That was a hoax, right?” “Yeah,”…

“SNL At Home” reminded me of Nov. 17, 2007 — the only other time the show was forced out of 8H — I watched “SNL At Home” last night, knowing it would be special, and historic. In Saturday Night Live’s 45-year history the show has only left Studio 8H three other times — for in 1976 to make way for NBC election coverage, in 1977 to broadcast a Mardi Gras special from…

I’m a single mom. I’ve been there. — Hi. I hope you are doing okay. What a time we are in. Godspeed. Okay, to business. I’m a single mom to an almost-five year old. I work for myself — I run an online professional network for women and am a writer, lyricist and consultant — so not only…

Calling attention to the problem leads to better behavior all around — Ever since the term “manterrupting” was coined in a 2015 TIME article, people have argued that it’s not a thing. I’m here to tell you that it is. And not just on debate stages (see Biden and Sanders this past summer) — also in your office, and maybe even at…