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Posts by Month: March, 2010

Scouting Gets In Your Blood

I certainly can relate to the author’s assertion that scouting is one of those things that just gets...

Women and Springtime

The feeling of Spring is definitely in the air. It is also in the attitudes and faces of the people ...

Margaret Moth: Admirable, Heroic, Courageous Woman

Margaret Moth, nee Wilson, (Aug. 21, 1951--March 21, 2010) was born in New Zealand but became a ci...

Danger in Food

In the last decade, more and more concerns have been raised about the safety of our foods. Outbreaks...

The First Women Rabbis

Although no prohibition exists in the codes of Jewish law against the ordination of women as rabbis,...

Oscar History; Kathyrn Bigelow

Since the first Oscar statuette was awarded in May of 1929, only 1 woman has ever won the award for ...

What Makes a Good Mystery Novel?

Because I am a fan of well-written mystery novels, I was interested to know what the writer on the w...

Rosie the Riverter; a Woman in a Man's Job

Rosie the Riveter, an early feminist icon, was a media fabrication used as propaganda during World W...

Rosa Parks as a Historic Woman

On December 1, 1955, a woman in her early forties boarded a bus to take her home after a day at work...

Vacation in Scotland

There are lots of good reasons to consider vacationing in Scotland and the article on the lovely web...

The Historic Sacajawea

Sacajawea was the daughter of a Shoshone chief, but the precise date of her birth is unknown. Around...

Historic Mohegan Woman Chief; Lynn Malerba

On March 4, 2010, Lynn Malerba, Mohegan Tribal Council Chairwoman, stepped into the history books wh...

Children and Nutrition

The article on the website below mentions some important points about making sure your children are ...

Madeleine Albright: An Illustrious and Inspiring Political Figure

The story of Madeleine Albright is indeed an inspiring one, and it's little wonder that she is consi...

Taking Care of Yourself

The nurturing of our children sometimes overcomes self-nurturing. The website below gives one woman’...

The Working Mother

Most mothers today work out of sheer necessity, not because they want to. With the economy today, i...

First Women Olympians

The ancient Olympic games took place in Olympia, Greece from the 8th century BC to the 5th century A...

Never Too Late for an Education

There was a time when the title College Student meant a new high school graduate taking the next ste...

Women's Rights

What does women's rights mean? It means that women now have the same rights as men. They can no long...

Winter Weary

I am so ready for SPRING! While this has been an unusually 'wintery' winter, with more snow than we ...

Sacajawea as a Historic Woman

Sacajawea was born about 1788 in Idaho and died Dec 20, 1812 at Fort Lisa, Nebraska at age 24. She ...

Rosa Parks

Rosa Parks was much more than just a black woman on a bus. She was a civil rights activist who was c...