The last quarter of 2023. For some it means that student loan payments with their sky high interest rates which accrued more debt even as the students finished up their studies will start again. For others this day signals the beginning of preparation for the coming holidays. Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas are the big three […]
Staying Focused Under Fire
Let’s make the world a better place for Women’s History Month. I know I am aiming for that.
OMG – Best Networking Ever
I am in San Diego at a National Women’s History Alliance meeting. Do you know about the Justice Bell. Did not this morning. Now I do. A copy of the Liberty Bell made by suffragists to tour around on a flat bed truck as a draw for suffragists speeches, over a 100 years ago. We […]
The Last Blossom on My Branch
With my love of family stories, personal history, and personal material culture it is ironic that I see my Family Tree pruning itself into oblivion. My daughter is the last women of my maternal line. She is so much like me in many ways. I always said until I was in my early 30s that […]
Research Essentials
When we, as women, want to create something, anything, we often feel we have to deal with what has come before, even more than men, who are trained to act as a reaction or in response to a command. There are personal paths we walk that sometimes require an examination of previous steps we have […]