A Side Dish Best Served Cold
A short memoir of perhaps illustrative significance.

In the early 1990s, I got hired to work as a legal assistant in a law firm that was, up to the point of hiring me, all women. I soon discovered that everyone there hated each other with a toxicity unique to all estrogen all the time. And in some vague, corporate way, I think HR had begun to realize that male and female energies can actually complement…