Women's History Month | Women's History Month
Mar.29.2010
Octavia Estelle Butler achieved the unprecedented feat of winning three major science fiction awards--the Nebula, Hugo, and Locus Awards, all in 1985--before going on in 1995 to also win the MacArthur Foundation Genius Award. This achievement, in addition to a number of other honors, established...
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Mar.20.2010
Girl Talk: A Reading in Celebration of Women's History MonthLast Saturday I ran a poetry reading called "Girl Talk." This was the third year of what I initially thought would be a once-only event. I've wanted to continue doing it because it has been fun and the people who participate ask...
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Mar.16.2010
Many modern audiences first became familiar with the name Nina Simone in 2005 after Canadian singer Michael Buble' recorded her 1965 hit song, "Feeling Good," and which finalists on the popular American Idol television show sang before world audiences in 2007.
However, long before Buble'...
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Mar.12.2010
The current celebration of what is known as Women's History Month got its start in Europe on March 8, 1911, as a single day devoted to highlighting the political struggles of women, and then grew to a week-long event celebrated in the United States in 1978, finally expanding by way of a U.S...
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Mar.08.2010
What was I thinking? The weather forecast for the Northwest was "partly cloudy, showers", generally a safe bet, so I wore a big black raincoat and layers for my trip to Seattle and Portland. Had I forgotten the daffodils during the Vancouver Olympics? Forsythia, flowering quince,...
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Mar.16.2009
No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion. --Carrie Chapman Catt, Senate Hearing on women's suffrage , 1900
Wednesday, I got to play hookey....At least that’s how it felt as I left my manuscript behind (I’m down to the last few chapters which aren...
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