Columns & Musings

BY JANET SILVER GHENT Brett Farkas Komanovsky (left) and her mom, Hillary Farkas, in 1990. On her right wrist, Hillary Farkas wears an...

‘Not so long ago, humiliation was a standard disciplinary tactic. I remember those incidents clearly’ Janet Silver, age 9, with her...

My worst New Year's was spent in London's Euston Station, expecting my boyfriend to arrive. By JANET SILVER GHENT When I was a teenager...

BY JANET SILVER GHENT This is a story of two Gertrudes in my family tree who died tragically, and too soon. One was Gertrud Feiertag...

BY JANET SILVER GHENT The staff at the Bulletin surprised me with a pre-wedding ice cream cake The Oakland Tribune, where I’d worked as a...