Personally. Politically. Culturally. Yep. All of it. unsplash-logoWalid Berrazeg With the New Year our reckoning of where we are in time resets, clicks up a notch, and we tend to go along with this arbitrary date assignment. 2019. 5779. 4717. These are current descriptors of the now, or what will soon will soon be now […]
Curate Change
I try to be non-political on this site, but it is very difficult for me to exclude things from my writing if a topic jars me so that I really take note. I have been wrestling with this for quite some time. Recent events have made me change my belief about what is appropriate to […]
Iconic Z: Zora Neale Hurston
The Influence of One Woman If you ask readers to name two successful African American women writers you will probably hear Alice Walker and Toni Morrison in reply. But if you go back another generation the reply, if the respondent is savvy in history and literature, has to be Zora Neale Hurston. But she was […]
Iconic N: the Nature of Nurture via Nesting
Before I get into the nature of creating a place to nurture, I want to give very basic info about the human genome. The human genome contains 30,000 genes, but genes are really allelic pairs at specific points on the strands of DNA. Natural Nurture: “Most behaviors… likely result from multiple genes operating in tandem.” […]
Iconic I: Iris, Goddess of Information?
Iris is a Messenger of the Gods of Olympus who travels on the rainbow. She is the Goddess of the Sky and Sea, and of communications She travels between Mount Olympus and the world of mortals to dispense messages from the Gods. She also carried water in a pitcher from the River Styx to people […]
Women's Councils and Committees of the Late 19th Century
Women’s History Month tributes and mentions often gloss over the time period between the Seneca Falls gathering of 1848 and what we might be tempted to think was the resumption of the suffragist movement of the early 20th Century. Of course individual women, often the same ones, are mentioned over and over every year. But […]