Feminism

Notes Wednesday, August 28, 2013 Wednesday, April 5, 2017

A prayer for a daughter

I stumbled on this today on Facebook, and it has to be one of the sweetest things I’ve read in a while. Tina Fey’s prayer for her daughter begins thus… First, Lord: No tattoos. May neither Chinese symbol for truth nor Winnie-the-Pooh holding the FSU logo stain her tender haunches….

Notes Friday, December 23, 2011 Tuesday, April 4, 2017

Girls and Toys

Whenever my dad or relatives came back from trips to London, the trademark thick white plastic bag with its pictures of soldiers in red coats and black bearskin hats meant only one thing – a gift from Hamleys. In my case this usually meant a box of magic tricks, more…