“MS” magazine used to feature children’s stories that had a feminist slant. I have two daughters, and so I enjoyed reading them the stories picked by “MS”. I was surprised one issue though to open it up to see a… Read More ›
Feminism 
Why the words “failed” and “marriage” don’t belong together.
I somehow lucked out and have been married to a wonderful man for over 30 years. My husband and I were not aware of this, until one day we sat down to figure out just how long we had been married…. Read More ›
French Flirting vs. US Flirting! (guess who meows?)
I have always enjoyed the manners of men when I am in France and Belgium. They hold doors, and are usually very polite. I know I am in the category of “maman”, as in Belgium I usually had a child… Read More ›
Vast Conspiracy against Women: A Lack of Pockets
I thought I was the only one who keeps her iPhone in her bra, but it turns out I’m not. Seriously, WTF is UP with these clothing manufacturers that don’t put pockets in women’s clothing? Especially business-type women’s clothing? I… Read More ›
Dr X – My Misogynist Engineering Professor
Engineering: The creative application of scientific principles to design or develop structures, machines, apparatus, or manufacturing processes, or works utilizing them singly or in combination; or to construct or operate the same with full cognizance of their design; or to… Read More ›
On Being a Girl, and Chemistry Sets
When I was a school girl, my parents received Sears catalogs on a regular basis. Each fall, a large Sears Wishbook , with over 300 pages, would arrive in the mail. I remember pouncing on these catalogs, skipping over all… Read More ›
A Dickens of a good read!
One of my favorite books is “One Pair of Hands” by Monica Dickens. Written in 1937, the book chronicles her adventures as a “cook-general” during the last years before WWII. The inside joke of the book is that Monica (you… Read More ›
My Privilege
Privilege: a right, immunity, or benefit enjoyed only by a person beyond the advantages of most Several years ago I was picking on my oldest son, then a teen, for something I thought he was doing wrong, and called him… Read More ›
The hatred of Marie-Loise Pailleron
John Singer Sargent was probably the best known portrait painter of his time. He was talented enough to make a living painting the famous and the rich. He painted a American President and English Royalty. While his most famous painting… Read More ›
Beaver War! (or those DAM beavers!)
The title of the blog post may confuse people. Just to be clear, this isn’t about the “Republican War on Women.” This blog post is about the war on beavers, the tree cutting down, endlessly busy engineers that inhabit the… Read More ›
