I Noticed Seagulls: Birds and Breast Cancer
I can almost always see seagulls flying overhead. They fly over my house, sometimes so high that I can barely …
Tag Archives: Women
Literary Wives: American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld
Today is the first day of the Literary Wives series! The first book to be reviewed is American Wife (2008) …
A Diantha Book by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
I have an amazing colleague named Diantha. She is a Master’s student at my university and a former elementary school …
The Desperate Housewives of Literature: A New Blog Series
A few years back, when it was still on television, Desperate Housewives was one of my favorite shows. (I know, …
The Mommy Myth
The Mommy Myth: The Idealization of Motherhood and How It Has Undermined Women (2004) by Susan J. Douglas and Meredith …
How Would You Live If Your Child Were Still Missing?
I decided to read Still Missing (1981) by Beth Gutcheon because of this bookmark. It’s a bookmark from Persephone Books. …
The Social Construction of Technology: Bicycles, Bakelite, Bulbs, and the Dishwasher
Part of my childhood was spent in a tiny town on a Navajo reservation, where we lived in a trailer. …
An Obsession with I Love Lucy through Books
My favorite TV show of all time is I Love Lucy. I have seen every episode, I have them all …
I Laughed, I Cried, I Rejoiced!
I’ve been on a journey to find people like me. People who think like me, feel like me, and write …
An Exploration of Institutional Motherhood through Adrienne Rich’s Of Woman Born
Note: Please do NOT be offended by this post, especially if you are a friend or a family member. This …
