Essays and Articles

Mom finds love of baseball in the dugout
Ellie Rand, Special to the Times
St. Petersburg Times, Sunday, April 6, 2008

It was my summer of love. I was not 19. I did not fall hard for the country club lifeguard. I did not meet a blue-eyed Chicago Tribune reporter in Cancun at sunset. I did not follow my Dartmouth-bound high school sweetheart to Martha’s Vineyard, where he dumped me. READ MORE >>

Healthy resolve brings a lifetime of sustenance 
Ellie Rand, Special to the Times
St. Petersburg Times, June, 2007

“I’m the only one in this family without a weight problem,” my mother said as she stirred her turkey gravy on my stove. Oh, you have a problem with weight, I thought as I registered the level of shock of the other women in the kitchen. Avoiding eye contact with my cousin Catherine and older sister Lisa, I gave my Aunt Tita an apologetic smile. Happy Thanksgiving, ladies. READ MORE (PDF) >>