As we move into another dry, warm winter here in the high desert Southwest, it’s sometimes hard to believe that this may be what we are going to experience for the indefinite future…
Margaret Erskine: “Taken by Indians”
I started writing Margaret’s story, based on a brief memoir she dictated to her nephew many years after her taking…
Kitty
I’m always interested in the lives of women who jump into these ambitious, deadly federal projects—jump in, fall in, are pulled or sucked in.
Giving Thanks
I will be giving a special thanks for those who read these thoughts, and whose mysterious presence in my life keeps me going.
Mary Jane Colter and the Making of the Southwest
There’s nothing to equal to results of our ability to collaborate, and to remember and record our foremothers whom the powers that be usually neglect.
Saying No
The power to say no. Without it, can we ever feel we are in charge of our own lives?
They
We feminists hope and even believe that the work we’ve done over the past decades has expanded the boundaries of what it means, and can mean, to be a woman, but that hope and belief seems to me to have foundered on the pronoun issues of gender fluidity.
Women Rule
We plan, we get ready, and we go. Nobody hold us back. Our own fears don’t hold us back.
Digging Out The Roots
Times change. Time passes. A younger generation stands to inherit. One of its members challenged her ancient relative, the present owner, with what she feels is his guilt because of slavery.
Revising Ikons
The image of Mary as “Virgin Mary, Meek and Mild” has been a problem for many women and probably some men during the 100 years when this became her most common representation.