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...difference between an employee and someone you feel close to. They're an important cog in the wheel of your family. Some readers tell me, "We always treated our maid like she was a member of the family." You know, that's interesting, but I wonder what your maid's perspective was on that. You look at all these rules in place in the '60s - the separate bathroom, the separate plate and cup. That's not how you treat a member of the family. And that conundrum is what got me started on the real plot of the story...
...worry about the implications of being a young, white author writing in the thick dialect of African Americans? I'm still worried about that. On the one hand I wonder, Was this really my story to tell? On the other hand, I just wanted the story to be told. But the truth is that I didn't think anybody was going to read it. Had I known it was going to be so widely disseminated I probably wouldn't have written it in the type of language that...
Nancy Gibbs' humorous essay really hits the mark on the difficulty women face in choosing their titles and surnames [Oct. 26]. It makes no difference to me whether a woman keeps her name or takes her husband's. I wonder, however, in the interest of consistency, if Gibbs received an engagement ring from her husband. After all, if we can dispense with one outmoded patriarchal tradition, why not dispense with them...
...Healthier Way to Pay Doctors," Jeffrey Kluger writes, "Any job that averages $179,000 per year and lets you be your own boss is a job most folks wouldn't turn down" [Oct. 26]. I wonder if "most folks" would be willing to first invest 10 years of their life for training, after college, in order to qualify. I also wonder if "most folks" would be willing to regularly jump out of bed at 2 a.m. and run to the hospital. Would "most folks" consider this job "being your own boss" after they learn about the enormous regulatory and financial...
...wonder the popular quip goes: "No one ever says 'I want to go Yale when I grow up.'" In the town of New Haven, you can't even complain about how much your life sucks...