Halloween Poetry Friday: Janet Little
October 29, 2009 by Women's Voices For Change

Our Halloween poem comes from a time two centuries after the Scottish witches, below, were first evoked. Janet Little (1759–1813), known to her readers as “the Scotch milkmaid,” wrote in [...]
Read More »The Compass Rose: Dealing With the DMV and Other Tales
October 27, 2009 by Ainslie Jones Uhl

My birthday in early October was not particularly noteworthy until I realized it was the day that my North Carolina driver’s license was to expire. For years, I renewed my [...]
Read More »Memories of Friendship and Blueberry Pie
October 27, 2009 by Patricia Yarberry Allen

My friend Adam Dolle wrote me last week to let me know that his mother, Viola Dolle, had died after only a brief illness. Mrs. Dolle was a devout Catholic [...]
Read More »Gail Collins: “Remember, this is cool! we did some amazing things!”
October 26, 2009 by Chris Lombardi

The Constitution Center in Philadelphia, perhaps best known in recent years as the site of President Obama’s iconic speech on race, was packed this past Monday night. The two women [...]
Read More »Ten Questions for Lisa Genova
October 26, 2009 by Women's Voices For Change

1. What are you working on now?
I’m writing my second novel, Left Neglected. This is a story about a woman in her mid-thirties who is like so many women I [...]
Susan Baida: eCareDiary, Building Community, and Sex in the Workplace
October 25, 2009 by Susan Baida

We at WVFC were thrilled to discover an essential new resource and “neighbor” on the World Wide Web: eCareDiary.com, an online community formed in late 2008 for those of us [...]
Read More »A Jersey Girl and the Poet Springsteen
October 24, 2009 by Laura Baudo Sillerman

This story about a rock star begins with a crumb bun. Well, a crumb muffin. I came down to breakfast this morning and there was a crumb muffin on the [...]
Read More »Poetry Friday: Lisa Russ Spaar
October 22, 2009 by Women's Voices For Change

Sometimes it feels as if all the buzz in literature, especially poetry, is about youth. Who won the Yale Younger Poets Award? The XYZ Fellowship for Writers Under Thirty? That’s [...]
Read More »Nanette Lepore, Fern Mallis, Samanta Cortes Lead Fight to Save New York’s Garment District
October 21, 2009 by Women's Voices For Change

Some WVFC readers might remember a Nanette Lepore fashion catwalk we embedded last year for one of our Pat Allen’s posts; the very last dress in it, after all the [...]
Read More »Diane Vacca On the Shriver Report: Now that We Are the Labor Force, How About Some Respect?
October 20, 2009 by Diane Vacca

Eager to see what the Shriver Report has to say about women over 50, I paged through my electronic copy, wishing in my over-50 way that I had physical pages [...]
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