I sometimes wish I could ignore stupidity, corruption, and the various and insidious old boy networks that are everywhere I look. I try to ignore them, I really do, but politics is everywhere. And most often, or so it seems to me, the politically motivated are stupid, corrupt and play favors with abandon. I do […]
Women Not Cut From the Same Cloth, But…
I’ve been mulling over this post for weeks. There are things that have to be said that border so many issues it is almost impossible to write about them without getting lost in tangents. I love tangents but they are slippery and can sidetrack as well as illuminate through example. I know I am not […]
Breach of Trust
Andrew Bacevich, Breach of Trust: How Americans Failed Their Soldiers and Their Country Reviewed by Rachel Maddow in the New York Times. What we are steaming toward, at the end of more than 12 years of continual hot warfare, is not so much cold warfare or even peace, but rather a kind of high idle, […]
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 […]
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 […]