Conversations in Greece: Politics and Quiet Spaces
“Two hours in a dark room where no one talks to me.” That’s what I wanted after my return from…
Tag: feminism
What I Learned from Laura Ellard Sievers
Laura Gladys Ellard Sievers grew up on a stifling, hand-pricking, East Texas cotton farm with ten siblings and a whisper-voiced…
Heidi Beemer Wants to Go to Mars
If you grew up in the 1960s and ’70s, you are forgiven for thinking that we would all be living…
Not My Grandmother’s First Rodeo
I figured out that my grandmother really loved me on a bitter winter’s afternoon in St. Paul, Minnesota when I…
Lonely Night in My Irish Garret
Sitting up in my garret room above a pub in the town of Clonakilty, Ireland, I am wishing that the…