by Lise Funderburg | Jun 13, 2015 | Uncategorized, Word Up
When I tried to look black, it was the late 1970s and I was in England for a semester abroad. I had hair down to the middle of my back, the blonde of my birth long since turned a medium brown but the hair itself still fine and mostly straight, with more of a bend than...
by Lise Funderburg | Dec 29, 2014 | Word Up
I’ve been exploring our built environment lately, thanks to assignments from Architectural Digest’s website (click on the pictures to get to the magazine’s site). Topics have ranged from the precious handful of preserved historic theaters around the...
by Lise Funderburg | Nov 12, 2014 | Essays, Uncategorized
An essay on my unstoppable mother’s latest move. Appearing in the current issue (November 2014) of O, The Oprah Magazine (available on newsstands, the Internet, iPads, and implanted brain chips). This is part of a collection of useful, moving, and timely...
by Lise Funderburg | Sep 25, 2014 | Interviews, Uncategorized
By Lise Funderburg New York Newsday 5/25/93 Elizabeth Bartholet is a Harvard Law School professor and the author of “Family Bonds: Adoption and the Politics of Parenting” (Houghton Mifflin). Q. You became a zealous advocate of adoption just in the last...
by Lise Funderburg | Aug 15, 2014 | Word Up
Click here to read about Ferruccio Laviani’s line of neo-Tudor cabinetry—produced by a fourth-generation Milanese furniture maker—on Architectural Digest’s website.