Ellen Goodman, columnist and associate editor of The Boston Globe, writes a column that is syndicated by the Washington Post Writers Group and appears in more than 400 newspapers across the country. She was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for her columns in 1980, and the Hubert H. Humphrey Civil Rights Award in 1988 for dedication to the cause of equality.
In this collection of columns, Goodman writes: "Making sense is not like making bread. There is no cookbook to study, no recipe to follow. The attempt to make sense of the personal and public world in which we live is a high-risk business." As a writer, mother, daughter, and wife, she finds plenty of topics that are important to her. Among the subjects covered here are: women, high-tech living, campaign '88, generation gap, and surviving the 80s. Whether writing about lite power lunches, foreign policy, courtroom medicine, the downward mobility of Baby Boomers, or child-care; Goodman displays a commendable diligence and ethical perspective.