Articles
Treasure Hunt
Roberta McReynolds writes:
Mom withdrew into a prison of continuous sorrow, leaving her surviving
young child isolated in a world lacking the nurturing and affection I
needed to thrive. A full circle of generational grief had been
completed and anoth… more »
Wasting Words
Joan L. Cannon writes: "We have more words than most other modern languages. Of course we don’t
need to know them all and couldn’t use them all (though I think Nabokov
may have tried). Yet, that richness makes maximum precision almost
always poss… more »
The Green-Eyed Monster as Constant Companion
Julia Sneden writes:
"Perhaps it's human nature to look around and wish for something you
don't have. The alternative would lend to a kind of smugness that is at
the very least unattractive, and at the most, would lead to a kind of
stasis. If th… more »
Book Review: Women Making America
Jo Freeman reviews Women Making America,
covering women’s history from the Revolution to the present day. Chock
full of colorful images, it swoops high and low, sometimes mapping the
forest and sometimes looking at a tree. more »