“Morning is when I am awake and there is a dawn in me. . . To me, awake is to be alive.” (Walden Pond, 1854) Yes, I Like That!
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I Like That! Henry David Thoreau wrote . . .
By Jean on Monday, May 7th, 2012 | 2 Comments
Did you know that Walt Whitman liked to wear Red Union Suits. I like that!!!
By Jean on Thursday, April 19th, 2012 | No Comments
He died in 1892 but in 1895 the Montgomery Ward Catalog was selling Union Suits for 10 cents a piece. I like that!
THOUGHT TO PONDER . . . EMILY DICKINSON WROTE . . . “a word is dead when it is said, some say/I say it just begins to live that day.”
By Jean on Wednesday, March 23rd, 2011 | No Comments
Only a couplet expressed in iambic pentameter, the most common meter, but, oh, so powerful. This was Dickinson’s gift. A shy woman, she rarely left her house, and later in life, she rarely left her room, observing life through the lace curtains at her window. Perhaps that is the reason she took to wearing white, [...]
I LIKE THAT! Nancy Horan writes in her novel “Loving Frank” that. . .
By Jean on Wednesday, March 23rd, 2011 | No Comments
Kudos to Murkowski and to Alaska!
By Jean on Thursday, November 18th, 2010 | No Comments
The votes are in! Lisa Murkowski just won her Senate seat in Alaska! It’s no small feat to be elected as a write-in candidate; in fact, it’s no small feat these days for a woman to win an election, much less–a woman write-in?
Nutley AAUW and the Cello
By Jean on Tuesday, November 10th, 2009 | No Comments
The idea of doing a non-fiction with real women on the road to becoming what they can be, hit me as I talked to the Nutley Chapter of AAUW at their kick-off dinner, and I think I passed on my enthusiasm. While I was signing books a woman came up and stated. “I’ve decided I’m going to learn [...]