Something Good #102: My Dr. Ruth Debacle

When Dr. Ruth Westheimer died last month at the age of 96, the world mourned the loss of a pioneering sex therapist, educator, ethnographer , and unlikely media mega-star. Inwardly, I cringed. Not because I thought the tributes were unwarranted, but because Dr. Ruth was the most fumbled interview experience of my career as a journalist—an encounter that went so poorly that 10 years on, I still…