Continue Reading Wait, Charmain! Or was it Charmin? Cotonelle? One of these names starting with a C. Why let a good crisis go to waste? We might…
Continue Reading Go, Stella Maybe my brain is certifiably going downhill, but I watched this video of Stella, the dog, jumping over and over and over…
Continue Reading Ach, Emily…. Dickinson, she leaves me confounded. Always. And now this poem, that I have been mulling over for some weeks. What to make…
Continue Reading Modeling Today’s title is not referring to the kind of activity intended to make you buy clothes. Instead I want to talk about…
Continue Reading Breaking: Talk Canceled Folks, disappointing but justified news: the City of Newport canceled all nonessential public events – artist talk tomorrow 3/14/20 at the Newport…
Continue Reading Deal with It! I started the week with stealing a title and I’ll end it the same way. Deal with It is the title…
Continue Reading The Matilda Effect In 1993, Cornell University historian of science Margaret W. Rossiter published a paper that evaluated systematic, sex-based bias against women scientists and…
Continue Reading Flying High Today I invite you to spend your 10 minutes usually dedicated to the blog watching a video instead. It comes from a…
Continue Reading Changing History Ever heard of Maria Louise Baldwin (1856 – 1922)? Neither had I. You can find a portrait of her and other female…
Continue Reading Fanfare to the Uncommon Woman Yesterday was International Women’s Day and it seems appropriate to celebrate women this week – particular after we have seen female presidential…
