I have been in a funk and giving myself a pity party for the last several weeks. First I realized my magical year was ending as my 58th birthday rolled around a couple weeks ago. Born in 1957 my 57th year was to be magical or golden according to contemporary mythology I chose to embrace. […]
The Two Mothers of Mother's Day
The real story of Mother’s Day is beginning to be be recognized. What is so often thought of as a day to be nice to your mother has far more complexity, spirituality, and politics sewn into it than most contemporary people know. No matter how you slice it, the history of Mother’s Day is intimately […]
Challenge Yourself
In April of this year, ending just a few days ago, I completed the Blogging A to Z Challenge with 26 posts on this site. One was put up each day, Monday through Saturday, with Sundays off. Such a schedule allows for the writing days and days off to equal the number of the days […]
Zealotry, Zaftig and Zami
Today’s post is the last post, the post for the Letter Z in the Blogging A to Z Challenge in which I enrolled so as to help me get some of the basics about how this site views the topic of Women’s Legacy. It has been a very good experience: fun, educational, and it provided […]
Xes, Sexes and Mitochondrial DNA
The X post is always a difficult but exceeding fun post to research and write for the A to Z Blogging Challenge. The X post that I wrote a while back, in April 2012, called The Exceptional World of The Letter X, on my personal blog is still a favorite of mine. Today I expand upon the […]
To Traverse Travails
Looking at the legacy of the first generation of women to breathe life into a global digital connection is no mean feat. Looking at it before it is completed is also problematic. Examining something of which we are a part is just what thoughtful people do. We cannot get outside the system of which we are a […]