I have a thing about old letters, images, tawny browns, and filtered light. They remind me of times gone by and the first stirrings of a history written for women, about women, by women. Women’s domains no matter how they are parsed were, and largely still are, focused on the home, and relationships among family and […]
Googling Gaia
Women and Communication Women have been the indexers and organizers of human life for, literally, ages. Google is attempting to mimic the natural process of organizing and accessing information about what we do, what we want, based on a more natural model that takes social relationships and context into account. Real attempts at tapping the […]
Family and Friendship in Legacy
When I announced to people that The Women’s Legacy Project was launching in the near future I wrote: I think I have found the connecting thread within and between my interests, writings, academic & educational areas of dalliance: women, information and legacy. At first glance my interests may appear to be all over the place, […]
Evoking Essential Information
Sometimes you need to talk to others in order to corroborate or elicit information about a topic or person. sometimes you need to sit yourself down and collect and organize your thoughts and the information with which you want to work. This post deals with how to elicit information from yourself. I strongly suspect that […]
Dreams of Strength and Wisdom
For the fourth day of the Blogging from A to Z April Challenge I am giving you a bit about my dreams and views on history and legacy. Sometimes things seem to align. There is a wisdom brewing. It is an interconnected women’s wisdom. Many of us writing on the web write from monikers real or imagined, […]
Crafting Legacy
Hey Crafters, you were way ahead of the curve where legacy is involved, both technologically and visually. The legacy we build is the legacy we leave. The love that is poured into an activity with a child or for a loved one can sometimes be felt in the object long after it is crafted. […]