is for Letters in the A to Z of Tools for Legacy When was the last time you sat down and wrote a nice chatty letter to someone? Chances are that you may have sent a card or a note but that email, texts, or messaging via a social media platform have taken the […]
Über Ubiquity
There is a tendency for people to think that everyone else knows what they know. In this day where information is but a click away, it is even easier than it once was to think that what we know and think is ubiquitous. The word Über in German means above. In contemporary parlance it also […]
Her History
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 […]
Information, Influence and Indices: Women’s Work
Oh, don’t worry, this isn’t going to be that technical. Women have always been information managers. What comes into the home and family sphere, what goes out; the interaction of the personal spheres of interaction between larger systems such as commerce, education, religion, and families has been the purview of women. Men have traditionally been […]
Personal Exec Summary of BlogHer '12
Amazing women of all stripes, that sums up the annual BlogHer conference for me. Annually in July or August since 2005, for two to three days, women who write online or who are thinking about starting a blog gather in a major city to learn, share, discuss topics with each other and woo and be […]