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 […]
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 […]
Oceans and Amniotic Fluid
Pregnant women are often regaled with comments about the similarity of the stuff in their bellies cushioning their progeny to the ocean. Oceans and amniotic fluid do not have exactly the same salinity as is oft quoted as fact. Amniotic fluid has about 2% salinity. Oceans are 3.0 to 3.5% dissolved salts. All life does seem to […]
Names and Naming
Names are powerful. Most of us know that some cultures view personal names as so powerful that they are shared only with the closest immediate family members. But many things have names. A linguistics course taken long, long ago taught me about markedness, about marked and unmarked terms. In these oppositional pairs one term is […]
Mothers and Others, the Mosaic of Women in Our Lives
Mothers Mothers are probably the most influential people in the world. I am not sure that it was always this way for every culture in the world. In Sparta, mothers gave their sons over to the state to begin training as warriors at age seven. In upper class, historic, European families mothers did not nurse […]