Saturday, March 29, 2025

The Heritage Month Project: The Lives of Housewives With Shirley Jackson and Erma Bombeck

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The Women's History Month portion of my Heritage Month Project has provided me with an opportunity to do some thinking about two women ...
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Wednesday, March 26, 2025

Getting Serious About Humor: A Humor Question

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You have probably heard about some national security folks in the U.S. accidentally including a journalist in a group chat in which they wer...
Friday, March 21, 2025

The Month of La Francophonie and International Francophonie Day with Catherine Leroux

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In addition to being Women's History Month, March is The Month of La Francophonie  (also called Francophonie month), a time to celebrate...
Thursday, March 20, 2025

The Heritage Month Project: "Monster, She Wrote" by Lisa Kroger and Melanie R. Anderson

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At last, I am writing about Women's History Month reading! I am beginning with Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Sp...
Tuesday, March 18, 2025

U.S. Support for Heritage Months Appears to Have Disappeared. You Can Do Something About That.

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You can read anywhere This year I am doing what some might call identity reading--I'm reading books by authors who are members of groups...
Saturday, March 15, 2025

I'm Thinking of Making Introvert Humor a Specialty. New Story Behind the Story

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Image from Netflix My most recent humor writing, An Introvert's Nightmare , was published at MuddyUm earlier this week. It is far more ...
Wednesday, March 05, 2025

The Heritage Month Project: "The Cooking Gene" By Michael W. Twitty

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I know it's Women's History Month, but I had to finish my last read for Black History Month! It was a good book. Pretty amazing, in ...
Monday, March 03, 2025

Retooling Writing: A Story Behind the Story

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 Last week Books Are Our Superpower published my piece, I Came for the Genealogy and Stayed for Something Else . This was a revision of my ...
Tuesday, February 25, 2025

The Heritage Month Project: "The Underground Railroad" By Colson Whitehead

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Colson Whitehead won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award  for The Underground Railroad , and while I don't know what other...
Friday, February 21, 2025

The Heritage Month Project: "Pearl's Secret, A Black Man's Search For His White Family" by Neil Henry

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Pearl's Secret by Neil Henry is an older book, published in 2001. It's been on my To Be Read Shelf for a number of years. I probably...