Jan
06
2021
How do you step out of the shadows when you fall in love with someone like Ernest Hemingway? It seems everyone has heard of Ernest, but did you know he stole Martha's plane ticket to World War II?!...
Nov
04
2020
Picture this: The plague is raging outside your home and your husband has just died from the disease. You are now left with an elderly mother and three children to feed, but you previously were a homemaker. Whatever is...
May
27
2020
Women Wednesday isn’t just for those women you can look up in history books or on the history websites. It’s also for those women who have impacted people with their lives…because after all everyone is a part of history...
May
20
2020
Every now and then a grain of truth makes its way into the fantasy I love. Reading the history of Khutulun, a descendant of Genghis Kahn, I love seeing the facets of some of my favorite fantasy stories. I...
May
06
2020
How in the world did I not hear about this woman before today?! I’m scrolling along the internet at my usual places looking for interesting women when all of a sudden I land on a page talking about Chiyome…and...
Mar
04
2020
As a writer, I find myself drawn to strong female authors. My college English professor was obsessed with Frankenstein and in every class he had the book on his syllabus. But I found it quite interesting while...
Feb
21
2020
Almost exactly 800 years before I was born, having only missed my birthday by one day, an incredible woman died. Hildegard was noted to be well versed in man things such as music, medicine, and theology. She was also...
Feb
12
2020
Like most of the fascinating women from my childhood, I was
only given a tiny blip of information about them. Oh, but how the world is different now I have
Google. I don’t think 12-year-old me,
learning about the poet Emily Dickinson,...
Feb
05
2020
Sojourner Truth is one of the independent women from history who has stuck in my mind long after reading about her. I first learned about her in middle school and even though she did some pretty amazing things, it...
Jan
29
2020
As a gamer myself and lover of a lot of geeky things I find Kat Gunn interesting. I don’t think my wrists could take playing a game all day every day. I did that when Unreal Tournament was first...