http://www.christinagombar.com/blog Financial Medicine for the Chronically Ill .... Snake Oil Diaries ... Living Without Parenting Fri, 13 Aug 2010 19:35:46 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In Backspace's STET! column, I ask: Can a Writer NOT Embrace Social Media?  My name is Christina. I’m a published writer and a blogophobic. I’m also Facebook-averse and Twitter-terrified. I’m a long form writer, I subscribe to egghead foreign affairs journals and ten thousand words is about the right length for me to ... http://www.christinagombar.com/blog/?p=439 This week in Drinking Diaries.com, I write about the bar to end all bars that cured me of  night-clubbing forever -- at least in Connecticut.           Freshman year in college, when Saturday Night Fever came to the tiny, provincial Pennsylvania town of  my small, private, pseudo-elite college, my friends contemptuously declared that ... http://www.christinagombar.com/blog/?p=422 This week I'm prominently quoted in the Society for Human Resource Management news magazine on the effectiveness - or not - of the Americans With Disabilities Act. “Many of our fellow citizens with disabilities are unemployed … they want to work, and they can work,” said President George H.W. Bush when ... http://www.christinagombar.com/blog/?p=407 This week I'm quoted in Match.com's Happen magazine on how I got over my committment-phobia. “I am so counter-dependent, I am always like the elusive guy in a relationship, but I’m a woman,” says Christina Gombar. “I was the ultimate ‘heart of stone’ girl. I wasn’t promiscuous but I was always the ... http://www.christinagombar.com/blog/?p=392 Therese Borchard struggled with manic depression during her college years, but went on to earn a master’s degree and establish a stellar career in journalism and book publishing.  But the hormonal shifts of motherhood, a geographic move, as well as the switch from sociable on-site office work to an isolated, ... http://www.christinagombar.com/blog/?p=378       http://www.exhalezine.com/magazine/?page_id=521 In 2002, the renowned author Ann Hood lost her five year old daughter Grace to a rapid, freak, strep infection.  A novel, The Knitting Circle (2004) and a memoir, Comfort: A Journey Through Grief ( 2008) stand as testaments to that loss, and are gifts to everyone who has ... http://www.christinagombar.com/blog/?p=357 This week on  SilentSorority.com I tell how a trip to Russia cured my tunnel vision:   I consider myself less a survivor of infertility, than of the fertility industry.  Let me explain. As far as I know, I wasn’t infertile during my childbearing years. But when I was married and 30 and ready ... http://www.christinagombar.com/blog/?p=348 This month I'm quoted in Elle.com on how I've managed to stay married so long: “Many friends who witness my husband and me sparring say, 'I don't think you are going to make it.' But in fact, our constant conflicts have kept us together,” explains Christina Gombar, 50, a writer. “Nothing is sat on, ... http://www.christinagombar.com/blog/?p=306 My short memoir on  life at AIG named runner-up in the Manhattan Media Contest. Read it here:                                       Elegy for an Organization “In the federal trial, AIG alleges that ousted CEO Maurice ‘Hank’ Greenberg left AIG in 2005 with 290 million shares of illegally seized stock, since sold for an estimated $4.3 billion ...”    I ... http://www.christinagombar.com/blog/?p=289 Should IVF Coverage Be Mandatory?            A couple of Decembers ago, I got an email from Resolve, the national infertility organization -- a plea for end-of-year, tax-deductable donations. “Imagine a world where fertility treatment didn’t exist ...”  began the missive.             It had been years since I looked to Resolve for aid ... http://www.christinagombar.com/blog/?p=283