Click here to view original web page at thriveglobal.com graja/Shutterstock Here’s the unfortunate truth: women often aren’t given the tools or education they need to support themselves financially, especially when we’re young. Rather, we’re conditioned to lean on other people to support us. Even today, that’s how many women are raised. As a result, 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 […]
A to Z of Iconic Reflection
The A to Z Blogging Challenge Occurs in the Month of April I have been blogging since the last millenium. I remember first participating and completing the A to Z Blogging Challenge in 2012 via my Reason Creek blog. In 2014 I started a new project that incorporates all the passions about which I research […]
Iconic V: Women Are Not Weaker Vessels
I knew from the first thought of doing the challenge this year that I wanted to do the word vessel for the letter V. Women being thought of as vessels is a problematic, but common concept. I suspect it is one of the most harmful iconic visualizations of women in the world. I do not […]
Iconic U: Umiaq, Ursula, and Ubiquity
I had the best of plans for the letter U. I had decided early on that the perfect word for the letter U in this years’s challenge was the word Umiaq, which would give me opportunity to talk about gendered toolkits and tools, not pink hand drills, but real distinct tools that are women’s boats […]
Iconic N: the Nature of Nurture via Nesting
Before I get into the nature of creating a place to nurture, I want to give very basic info about the human genome. The human genome contains 30,000 genes, but genes are really allelic pairs at specific points on the strands of DNA. Natural Nurture: “Most behaviors… likely result from multiple genes operating in tandem.” […]