Women’s History Month tributes and mentions often gloss over the time period between the Seneca Falls gathering of 1848 and what we might be tempted to think was the resumption of the suffragist movement of the early 20th Century. Of course individual women, often the same ones, are mentioned over and over every year. But […]
Collectivism, My Favorite New Identity
This is an edited repost of an article originally posted on Nancy’s personal blog in April of 2014. ———— I have a new identity! I’m a collectivist! I have not changed, but there is a revitalized use of a label I have not previously embraced, but that I will now gladly blazon with every opportunity. […]
November Is For NaBloPoMo
It’s Alphabet Soup. It’s Acronym Stew. No, it is NaMoPoMo! I’m celebrating making it through another October, often a very difficult month for me, by joining in this annual blog writing challenge by writing and posting on this blog every day in November. No. It doesn’t make sense to me either. And yes, this […]
Juice, Juju, Karma, and The Business of Blogging: Part II
Do you every ask yourself, who am I helping with my participation in this ad campaign or blogging network? Perhaps you should. Helping yourself, helping your community, and helping global corporations all have very different reward structures and consequences. Types of Strategic Promotion This is the second post in a series of posts on the […]
Mommy Blogging Grows Up
I have always been a Mommy Blogger. I have never been a Mommy Blogger. Do I contradict myself? Very well then, I contradict myself. I am large. I contain multitudes. — Walt Whitman I spend a lot of time attempting to reconcile these contradictory truths. That is why I love this quote. On The I […]
Sisters of the Earth
Happy Earth Day! I’m thinking of Earth Sisters near and far throughout time and space this Earth Day when we honor Mother Earth. Environmentalists I want to give a shout out to some of the women who influenced my understanding of the fragile globe we live upon. Gene Stratton-Porter Rachel Carson Rachel read Gene as […]