What a difference music makes!
Want to trade your brain in for a new one?
In first grade, Barbara Arrowsmith-Young was told, “You have a defect.” “You have a mental block. ” “You will never learn as other children.” “You need to live with these limitations.” She couldn’t tell time. She got lost easily. She didn’t understand abstracts. She didn’t process mentally what was happening to one side of her… Read More
Gotta get me a fat-jiggling machine
Do you grab onto the latest and greatest idea you hear on television, see on the internet, or hear as it makes its way through the friend chain? Or do you view things with skepticism until you think it through, do a little research, and mull over cause and effect? We tend to be a… Read More
Can empowered women exist in patriarchal societies?
What is it like to live as a woman in a patriarchal society? I’ve been asking that of Ruth, the protagonist in my historical novel, Less Than a Widow? While researching this subject, I listened to a Tedtalk called “My daughter, Malala” by Pakistani educator Ziauddin Yousafzai. You can watch this video at: http://www.ted.com/talks/ziauddin_yousafzai_my_daughter_malala#t-273074. Mr.… Read More
Kathleen S Evenhouse 