The End, 1963
November 22, 1963. Friday. "Today our concern must be with that future. For the world is changing. The old era is ending. The old ways will not do."- John F.…
Some Fantasy
As you will learn in my book, Rain Dodging, when I was younger I had a closet fantasy of being a cocktail waitress. As a young teacher, I fantasized about a…
Talking Boards?
Norman Rockwell cover May 1, 1920, The Saturday Evening Post. The Ouija also known as a spirit board or talking board is a flat board marked with the letters of the alphabet, the numbers 0–9, the…
How De We Know Where We Are?
How do we know where we are? How can we find the way from one place to another? And how can we store this information in such a way that…
Ride the Wave
“A feminist is merely a woman who refuses to accept the notion that women’s power must come through men.” —Erica Jong Feminist history can be divided into three waves.…
Mad Marge
In Rain Dodging, I introduce you to a handful of early feminist warriors. Here’s one: Margaret Cavendish, the Duchess of Newcastle Bettman / Getty Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, died at…
Will you still love her now she’s 64?
On March 9, Barbie was 64 years-old. In her first year, 300,000 were sold for $3 each. Over the last 60 years, Mattel Inc. has sold over a billion Barbie…
Phone Home
After over 8 weeks of silence, the Mars Ingenuity helicopter is talking again. Ingenuity Perseverance NASA/JPL-Caltech Ingenuity weighs just 4 pounds and moves thanks to rotors 4 feet long from…
Only a Trace Memory
On Sunday, I was watching Aerial America: Indiana while doing my physical therapy exercises. The show spent time retelling the efforts of Tecumuseh. Legend claims that famous warrior and dynamic orator Tecumseh began…
Topaz
“A Jap’s a Jap. It makes no difference whether he is an American citizen or not.” -Lt. Gen. John L. DeWitt, April 15, 1943 The internment of Americans of Japanese…