We went as grandparents, whose grandchildren have discovered a number of the books she wrote for them ... for her ... for us. We can't recall books that we've so enjoyed reading out loud, and perhaps 'loud' is the operative word. The characters become more alive when we stress the words, the outrageous but oh-so-real words. more »

Basically, they slipped back under the radar, becoming moles more like the early 1960s feminist insiders. In that capacity they could still feed information where it could do the most good, award grants and improve policies around the edges. Banaszak concludes that the sympathy of the Administration matters, but not as much as scholars have said it does. Insider feminists were quite creative in slipping through the cracks. more »

Beauty of surface, of tone, of detail, of things near enough to touch and kneel upon and lean against — it is from this the effect proceeds. In this sort of beauty the place is incredibly rich, and you may go there every day and find afresh some lurking pictorial nook. It is a treasury of bits, as the painters say ... more »

The difficulty and the exertion in sampling and filming marine life is a unique challenge, at times exhilarating but also occasionally disappointing. Sea horses and their kin are being harvested intentionally for the aquarium and medicinal trades, and incidentally as bycatch in the shrimp and bottom trawl fisheries more »