My husband and I were born three weeks apart, and our plan had always been to throw a joint party for our 40th birthdays.

It's 2013 ... The Time's obituary for Yvonne Brill, renowned rocket scientist, winner of the National Medal of Technology and Innovations, leads with, 'She made a mean beef stroganoff, followed her husband from job to job and took eight years off from work to raise three children. "The world's best mom," her son Matthew said.

My husband and I were born three weeks apart, and our plan had always been to throw a joint party for our 40th birthdays.

This is what sexism does best: it makes you feel crazy for desiring parity and hopeless about ever achieving it.

I loved to press the shutter, to freeze time, to turn little slices of life into rectangle rife with metaphor.

I sell my first book to Random House, a memoir of my years as a war photographer, for twice my NBC salary.

I do miss the excitement of seeing history up close, of having intimate knowledge, through direct experience, of what happens when people and governments clash, but I do not miss the danger or the constant displacement.