by Kathy | Mar 16, 2021 | Musings
From L-R: Mamie Smith, Judith Hueman, Justice Motley, Christine Quintasket, Manal al-Sharif MAMIE SMITH A vaudeville entertainer from the age of 10, Mamie Smith made history by recording “Crazy Blues” in 1920, widely considered the first recorded Blues track, and the...
by Kathy | Mar 11, 2021 | Musings
NELLA LARSEN Nella Larsen, a critically acclaimed author of the Harlem Renaissance, was born in 1891 to a West Indian father and Danish mother. Shunned her entire life by her white relatives, she struggled to fit in anywhere, and explored both sexual identity and the...
by Kathy | Mar 6, 2021 | Musings
From L-R: Gerda Tarro, Jacki Mitchell, Delores Huerta, Qui Jin, and Emily Warren Roebling #6 GERDA TAROBorn in Germany in 1910, Gerda Taro became the first female photojournalist to cover war from the front lines, documenting the toll of the Spanish Civil War. Her...
by Kathy | Mar 1, 2021 | Musings
JEANETTE RANKINGiven the historic election of our first female VP in the US, I thought it fitting to start with the first woman ever elected to US Congress. She was elected in 1916, and is still the only women to ever be elected from Montana! This article in the...
by Kathy | Dec 23, 2020 | Musings
When I think about the process of writing a novel, I’m reminded of Michael Angelo’s famous description of sculpting—that the figure resides within the stone, and his job is to free it. Each novel (for me) starts with an unwieldy boulder of an idea: some kind of...
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