Follow my blog with Bloglovin Girls dream of their weddings and begin a planning process that can last for decades. We think about becoming a wife, mother, walking our education and career paths, where we want to travel, and where we live. Our wants have lots of planning and dream time. As we write the book of […]
Digital Legacy
I have a thing about old letters, images, tawny browns, and filtered light. They remind me of times gone by and the first stirrings of a history written for women, about women, by women. Women’s domains no matter how they are parsed were, and largely still are, focused on the home, and relationships among family and […]
Fighting Ignorance With Ignorance
Basic information on how culture works, respect for knowledge, and understanding of science is sorely missing from today’s world. Even those who purportedly are educated people doing science or creating complex global policies do not understand even the basic concepts of social science. We cannot fight ignorance with ignorance… for oh so many reasons. Social science does […]
7 Things To Stop Giving A Darn About In 2015
Ok, the word, darn, in the title really means sh*t, and we all know it. But the expression is so quaint and rooted in women’s culture; I just have to use it. I stole the idea for this article from the Huff Po, I did not read their article because that corporation does not […]
John Waters and the End of Christmas
I cannot stand the crass commercialization of Christmas, or the Solstice for that matter. I put up my Christmas lights on December 24th and take them down on January 6th. Christmas Eve through Epiphany is my Christmas Season. The twelve days of Christmas and all that… Christmastide. I’m not overly religious, but I do appreciate […]
Four Weeks in February
I previously have written about being the hostess for a posted writing challenge that is not all overly challenging. No, it should not be challenging just to complete, the challenge should be to write meaningfully and add to the group’s voice, if you are one of the people for whom the challenge will be designed. I should […]