Enter the recipients' email addresses, separated by commas: Your email has been sent. When I chose to research and write a book about twins, I didn’t realize I’d be writing a memoir. Of course I knew that my own identical twinship was the reason the ...
I couldn’t escape my own perspective, no matter how impartial I tried to be. And my outlook was not an uncomplicated, rosy view of twinship; there were hurdles and landmines to being raised in tandem, which I felt I needed to examine. ...
Back in 1986, when I was in college with my twin sister, Robin, we were invited on the Today Show. Co-host Jane Pauley had recently given birth to twins and she wanted to talk to grown twins about what it was like to be one. All I remember about the ...
Natty genes? The Barber twins, Ronde and Tiki, at a benefit in New York City, in 2006. By Bryan Bedder/Getty Images. Tiki Barber, retired running back for the New York Giants, knows that he wouldn’t be so famous if he weren’t an identical twin whose ...
NEW YORK (JTA) -- Rosh Hashanah’s Torah reading on the banishment of Abraham’s son, Ishmael, has a special acidity for me as an identical twin. It’s difficult to square the fresh start and requisite “accounting of the soul” commanded of us in the new ...
My husband and I are in love with our Kindles. But the little handheld machines are straining our marriage. I should start with the arc of the romance: It all began with Kindle One. My husband brought the gadget home and I salivated as he began to ...
Two days ago, I sat in a typical, hulking public school in the Bronx, in a sunny library with grates on the windows, and heard vigorous poetry. I'd shown up feeling tired, distracted, my Blackberry overrun with unreturned emails. But suddenly I was ...
I'm a Type A, over-scheduled, super-rational person who has suddenly become a simpleminded, starry-eyed sap. I've been trying to keep my obsession in check. I haven't written a fan letter or stalked the stage door. I haven't disclosed how many hours I' ...
My close liberal family is now officially divided. My parents, Bert and Letty Cottin Pogrebin, support Hillary Clinton. My brother, David, and I are ardent supporters of Barack Obama. My twin sister, Robin, has yet to declare herself. Everyone is ...
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