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When a 4-word Feminist Manifesto Stuck
How One Woman Rewrote Advertising and Feminist History in 5 Minutes. A full-page ad that ran on May 5, 2024, in The New York Times’s...


Give that Girl Her Due! Sisters Support Sisters
Bonds of sisterhood in life, literature and my book Me and Meg, sister prankster at short-sheeting our brothers’ beds This one’s for...


The Time I Slayed a Dragon
For I am not a fraud, but I can’t seem to prove it. I am doing the work, but there’s no proof.


The Woman Who Saw Beyond the Paint
When you’re in the thick of living you don’t always see how the path is unspooling.


The Good, the Bada** the Beautiful of Groups
There are times in life’s dark hours when a person shows up to tell you you’re not alone.


Give Me a Hand-up?
Behind everyone’s success is another
ndividual who helped along the way.


You're Not Crazy Gerda Lerner
Credit for this innovation belongs to a woman I just learned about last fall: Gerda Lerner.


Sisterhood and the Collective Good
Nothing like a freak reaction to get me to appreciate Galentine's Day even more.


Stubbornness you need for living
I paint with the stubbornness I need for living. -Suzanne Valadon I think there’s a vein of stubbornness in you. That's a good thing!...


Small things together can become great
Great things are done by a series of small things brought together. -Vincent van Gogh I'm in the middle of a big sort. In Vincent’s...


How to break the rules
Hello -- broken any rules lately? “If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun. ” — Katherine Hepburn I ask, because I’m trying. To...
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