Write, Just Write I implore every blogger and online writer, every woman who knows how to write an email, a letter, or a message, to step up their writing pace to repair and what is left of democracy in our country, world, and in our minds. I am talking not just about posting on Facebook […]
July Legacy Prompts
The Women’s Legacy Project publishes a monthly post with prompts intended to help chroniclers of all sorts consider events, topics, and people related to the month at hand. The post contains between 30 and 50 prompts. Monthly Musings July 1, 2016 is the 100th anniversary of the start of the Battle of the Somme, one […]
Gun Violence – A Women's Issue
From Julia Ward Howe’s September 1870 “Appeal to womanhood throughout the world.“ These words were written as a women’s response to war. This Appeal is now often referred to as The Mother’s Day Proclamation. The gun violence of today tallies deaths comparable to those of war. “But women need no longer be made a party to proceedings […]
Women Who Curate and Publish – Part 2
In the first part of this multi-part article, I discussed how blogging may no longer be the best word to describe online writing. I “grokked” this emergent property of the communication system, a complex system, when I attended BAMC16 – The 2016 Bloggers at Midlife Conference, in Las Vegas Nevada – last month. Well, I […]
Women Who Curate and Publish – Part 1
I recently attended a small (200+ attendees) gathering of people who curate and publish via a blogging platform. Today I am talking about general aspects of writing conferences in light of the existence of blogging. So yes, this was a blogging conference, but it was also a writing conference, but it was not like the writing […]
Old Wives Tales
is for Old Wives Tales The phrase, “Old Wives Tales” conveys many, contradictory meanings and images. Old is not a bad thing. Old is alive, and experienced. We can actually use the phrase itself to illustrate some of the clues that such phrases can contain and convey. Old – In our youth-focused […]