When ideas and issues grab me and won't let go, I write about them. If they are about girls and women and sports, especially baseball, all the better! My book, "Locker Room Talk: A Woman's Struggle to Get Inside," pops up every now and then.
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Let’s Row Together
I’ve never been raped.
I say this with an ever-increasing sense of relief.
Exhaling as I acknowledge this my status, in this regard, owes itself largely to good fortune.
For I know that I didn’t live my life differently than did most of...
Let’s Row Together
I love a good mystery.
Perhaps it’s the reporter in me. The one that never left when I stopped being paid to be endlessly curious.
With questions still popping, even when answers aren’t quick to follow.
It also turns out that I’m nimble...
Let’s Row Together
Greed is good.
Greed is right.
Greed works.
Gordon Gekko, a fictional, unscrupulous corporate raider, made these claims in the 1987 film, Wall Street.
"The point is, ladies and gentleman, that greed, for lack of a better word, is good....
Let’s Row Together
One day, not soon I hope, I’ll be the soil nurturing a birch tree.
In my niece Allison’s yard.
A white trucked, paper-bark tree like the trio of birches I loved as a child when they grew in the front yard of my childhood home in Amherst,...
Let’s Row Together
Gloria is gone.
Three words I knew I’d write one day. Though I’d hoped somehow this day would never come.
For without Gloria, I do not live the life I lived, a sentiment I know many in my generation appreciate.
Though, of course, Gloria...
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Author of "Locker Room Talk: A Woman's Struggle to Get Inside,” (2024) Mom, climate activist and Charles River rower. My website: Melissaludtke.com
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