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REVIEW: What The Stones Remember

The blurb on the book’s front cover is by Alice Munro, “To read this book is to enter a state of enchantment.” Read it and become enchanted.

And now — some glamor!!

Johnny Carson asked the beautiful Angie Dickinson how she managed to look so young. “Moisturizer, Johnny. Moisturizer.” That’s the secret.

Protective apps for college (and other) women

In yesterday’s post, I suggested that college women be provided with alarm systems which would easily and unobtrusively notify authorities or friends that she was in distress. My husband did some research and found that apps already exist which do this. I haven’t tried any of these, but they seem cleverly designed, and some are free of charge.

Protecting freshmen women from rape

The rape statistics for young women in college aren’t getting any better, no matter how much awareness we raise. So we have to think of ways to protect our young women, and not wait for the potential rapists to change. It is not “liberating” to push unprepared young women into places where they have no protection. Rape is devastating, whether it happens to a man or a woman, but the campus problem concerns mostly young women.

Women's Liberation – It's only been 50 years or so

Now is the moment, two, or maybe three, generations after mine, when things are really changing.

Remember me

A bad dream is one way to remember why I write, why not doing it would be torture.

Post Feminism

This is what free women look like, and we have never seen them before.

From acceptance to publication: Changes at the publisher

Acceptance seems like the end of the road but there are always significant events to follow. A friend is dealing with her editor’s broken leg, which will delay her book. Any physical problem with an agent or editor at the publishing house is disturbing. A former agent of mine’s husband fell very ill and sheContinue reading “From acceptance to publication: Changes at the publisher”

Midnight in Rome

At night the center of Rome is as still as the middle of a remote lake at midnight.