This NYT piece was recently posted by a friend who uses meta-communication in a nuanced way, even though the article is, gasp, from 2014. How unhip and anti-immediate, to the point of being totally non-viral. https://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/06/fashion/social-media-some-susceptible-to-internet-outrage.html Social media, especially something like Facebook, for those who do not mask themselves or engage in life behind pseudonyms, […]
Girls Dream, Women Plan
Follow my blog with Bloglovin Girls dream of their weddings and begin a planning process that can last for decades. We think about becoming a wife, mother, walking our education and career paths, where we want to travel, and where we live. Our wants have lots of planning and dream time. As we write the book of […]
Women, Legacy, and the Future of Earth
Legacy is not just what you leave behind after you are gone. In fact allowing others to be in charge of your legacy after you are gone will pretty much guarantee that nothing you intended to leave behind will be left as you hoped. I do not like to be moribund or pessimistic; I like to […]
My Writing Life Resumes
I am edging back into the writing life, and I am raring to go. These last few months have presented wonderful opportunities to me. I believe I have made the best use possible of these gifts. I found a job when looked for one. I was able to work and tend to sad family obligations as well. Flexibility is […]
Digital Legacy
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 […]
Fighting Ignorance With Ignorance
Basic information on how culture works, respect for knowledge, and understanding of science is sorely missing from today’s world. Even those who purportedly are educated people doing science or creating complex global policies do not understand even the basic concepts of social science. We cannot fight ignorance with ignorance… for oh so many reasons. Social science does […]