I boarded my flight ready to sleep. Hope was dashed when I ended up next to a woman with a history of “working in government”. A history she was was ripe to share, with someone, anyone, preferably the person in the seat next to her — ME. I rank plane …
International Women’s Day 2011
Today is international women’s day. I can think of no more worthy a celebration than to sit down to a glass of wine (cocoa, tea, beer, cranberry juice), while reading the poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay. My acquaintance with her is slight, by way of Witch Wife and First …
Trust Women, Blog For Choice 2010
Stunned, but not surprised, at the Supreme Court decision giving corporations increased pershood ( Corporate Personhood), allowing them to wield all their power and money to purchase candidates and elections, and seeing a distinct trend, I thought it important to take part in Blog for Choice again this year. Today …
Domestic Violence Awareness Month
As October takes her first breaths, I dismiss the steady source of corporate income, the pink ribbon. In it’s place, another ribbon, this one purple, and not a ribbon that Estee Lauder would be interested obtaining legal counsel over. The purple ribbon stands for domestic violence awareness, and October is …
Google Women, Strangely Irritating
I was organizing my Google home pages. I have many categorized pages, from science and international development, to blogs and anthropology. I decided to add another “tab”, as they call it, for women’s issues”. I started the tab, and labeled it women. I inadvertently left their “I feel lucky” box …
Rethink Afghanistan
Renee reminded me of this with a clip she posted. Brave New Films has partnered with RAWA, to help Afghans displaced by US war, focusing on what is really happening in Afghanistan as a result of US policy. The partnership is to provide direct aid to displaced people living in …




