Girls need to learn to play rough, a lesson we may be trying to forget today with our return as mothers and grandmothers to a relentless obsession with our female offsprings’ looks.
Blog Posts about Women and Feminism
More Hopscotch
I can’t go into detail about our plans to preserve Hopscotch; this is complicated legally, and if successful, would be a landmark case, protecting other donors who find that their gifts have been abused by the not-for-profit they trusted.
Fading Away
I’m dismayed to see how rapidly the women’s movement is fading, eclipsed by monstrous wars but also by young women’s failure to engage.
So “They” Let Us Have One Month…
Women’s History Month began without much attention and certainly without fanfare on March 1, 2024 and will end in deafening silence on March 31.
Women Holding Things
As a worldwide conflagration of violence has broken out, we women are not even holding our own. Our voices and faces no longer appear in the news.
Silver Heads
It is with dismay but not surprise that I read a description of the reaction of two “Silver Heads” to Tracy Emin’s panels on the main doors of the National Portrait Gallery in London.
Umbrella
For my daily walk I borrowed a big black umbrella. But—how to open it?
Second Childhood
We’ve spent too many words bewailing the sins committed against us in our childhoods, and they were sins, and they had drastic effects, and that matters; but Sunday when I bought this charming “Winter Fairy” at my church’s St. Nicholas Bazaar, I decided it’s high time to enter into my second childhood…
Two Ways to Help
I feel as helpless and depressed as many of us do, watching the endless destruction wrought by the wars we largely finance with our tax dollars.
Winter at Wolf Pen Farm
It was never my intention to create a private estate, and it gives me great satisfaction to know that River Fields organizes seasonal wildflower walks at the farm, and that a generation of children is growing up in my three rental houses.