Doris O'Brien is a retired college Speech teacher and banker. She has published two books of humor (Up or Down With Women's Liberation and Humor Me a Little) and for many years contributed light verse to the Pepper 'n Salt column of the Wall Street Journal. She is an avid writer of letters to the editors.
Doris celebrated her 50th wedding anniversary in the same year she welcomed her first grandchild. She now lives in Pasadena with a great view of the San Gabriel mountains — and the annual Tournament of Roses Parade.
She can be reached by e-mail: witsendob at (@) gmail.com
YouTube for How To’s: Just-In-Time Learning
My husband was standing on my desk, replacing the dead ceiling light fixture in my office. He’d taken down the old fixture, and two frayed wires were sticking out. The new fixture had a t… more »
The Diary: Three Centuries of Private Lives at the Morgan Library
For centuries, people have turned to private journals to document their days, sort out creative problems, help them through crises, comfort them in solitude or pain, or preserve their stories for the future. "The museum is noted for its holdings of manuscripts, sketches, letters, drawings, and other items that speak to the creative mind at work" more »
The Function of Laughter at the US Supreme Court
"I argue that laughter plays an important social and communicative function in Supreme Court oral arguments that enables advocates and justices to negotiate the complex institutional, social, and intellectual barriers to obtain brief moments of equality within the Courtroom" more »
The Web Collaboration Project at the Center for the Historical Study of Women and Gender
As part of a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Center for the Historical Study of Women and Gender collaborated with Women's History faculty from twelve institutions across the country. That gave students the opportunity to do research on women in social movements in the US more »
