“Never Grow a Wishbone, Daughter….”
Sarah McMane, a high school English teacher in Upstate New York , accomplished poet and mom of a 2-year-old girl. She also founded an annual coffeehouse-style annual performance of original student...
View ArticleProm Plastic Surgery and Girls SPARKing a Difference
When we called people “plastic” back when I was a teenager, it was an insult. These days, apparently, not so much. Joe Kelly, over at The Dadman (an expert on how to father girls, as well as husband...
View ArticleRead These Now!!!
Looking for a new “fight fun with fun” book for your middle grade daughter (or son….)? Honey, have I got two for you. Kepler’s Dream, the debut YA novel by Juliet Bell, is about 11-year-old Ella, a...
View ArticleDREAMY reviews for “Kepler’s Dream”
I wrote earlier this week about the must-read YA novel, Kepler’s Dream, which was officially published yesterday. I’m thrilled to report that the book is already racking up stellar reviews. In this...
View Article“Sociological Images”: Will You Marry Me?
Sociological Images is ruining my life. I can spend hours looking at their images tracking….well, everything (God and the U.S. dollar) but especially the evolution of gender: there’s their current...
View ArticleHow We’ve Decamped from Science
A recent Christian Science Monitorarticle confirmed that there are still gaps between girls and boys in STEM (science, tech, engineering and math) subjects despite larger gains in education for women...
View ArticleAnd So it Begins….
Here are some of the questions a 9 1/2-year-old asks: “Mom, when did you go through puberty?” “Mom, when did you get your period?” “You mean you can get PREGNANT when you go through puberty????” “Mom,...
View ArticleWhere Have the Go-Go’s Gone-Gone?
Daisy and I have been watching this Go-Go’s vid over and over (and over) lately. I’m struck by how much the women in the band, unlike most of today’s female artists, look like real people–even Belinda,...
View ArticleJust for Fun, ‘Cause Dang, I Need Some
So many people have sent me links to Jamie Moore’s work. Moore is a photographer and mom to a 5-year-old girl, Emma. In response to the cultural omnivorousness of Disney Princess, she she began to...
View ArticleAlone in a Room on National TV
So you know when you’re watching CNN or MSNBC or FOX news orPBS or whatever and they have some talking head on a monitor chatting with the host? Well here’s how they do that when you’re the guest: you...
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