The Holiday Season is Here I write this, reworking a post from two years ago, just before Thanksgiving. We are in the weekend for preparation before what we affectionately call Turkey Day in the U.S. I do not want to add to anyone’s stress levels, but beyond setting up your tech to record the Macy’s […]
Saved Seeds and Grandma's Egg Noodles
My grandmother saved seeds; my grand-daughters are served non-GMO food whenever possible. This one sentence, personal vignette is a story of five generations of women. It involves changes in farming, from truck gardens to agribusiness. It is a reflection of how women procure food for their families. Hints, implications, context, and reference are implicit nuance, […]
COLUMBUS, CHICKEN DNA AND MY DAD
The first version of this article was written and published on another of my blogs in 2013. 1915. The year seems worlds away from today. My Dad was born in a small farmhouse outside the burg of Colburn, Indiana on October 14, 1915 to Dorothy and Ellis, a young married couple. He was the first […]
Seneca Falls, Meet Detroit
Yes. I have high hopes for the Autumn. There is a gathering in Detroit at the end of October. I am of course thinking of Seneca Falls, but also of Julia Ward Howe’s words: In the name of womanhood and of humanity, I earnestly ask that a general congress of women, without limit of nationality, […]
His Birthday and the Long Death of My Brother
I am sad that I cannot make a chocolate upside down birthday cake for you. I am happy you are no longer in pain. I am still angry that I am alone and that you and my other brothers all abandoned me in this life. I am telling your story as best I can. It has been 49 years since you were blown up on your damn birthday.
Intersectional Democracy
Write, Just Write I implore every blogger and online writer, every woman who knows how to write an email, a letter, or a message, to step up their writing pace to repair and what is left of democracy in our country, world, and in our minds. I am talking not just about posting on Facebook […]