November 8, 2016

My mom, Jeannette Lubarsky Malam, was a woman both of and ahead of her time. She was born in 1918, before women had the right to vote, suffered great deprivations during the Depression, and yet she managed to earn two Master's degrees from Columbia University before she turned thirty. She taught us that strong, smart, opinionated women are not only not to be feared but to be admired and respected. As a lifelong Democrat and progressive who wished Eleanor Roosevelt could have succeeded FDR, she would surely be delighted to know that I just voted--in her honor--for the first woman President of the United States. I hope.