This isn’t a post that has too much to do with women in history, but it does have to do with my own personal history with writing and two women who unexpectedly shaped it. And […]

This isn’t a post that has too much to do with women in history, but it does have to do with my own personal history with writing and two women who unexpectedly shaped it. And […]
Last fall, I decided that the student newspaper I was leading should reach out to our district’s Congressional candidates for interviews. It would serve as a reminder to students of the significant election coming up […]
While I’ve been catching up from my time away, a lot of my posts have become long-form dedications to those things and ideas that have inspired me since my last routine round of posting. I […]
So if you’ve been keeping up with the blog, you know that the biggest news in my life recently is my graduation from college. It’s a big, exciting milestone that gave me the celebratory freedom […]
Hello… The last time I posted, it was my 21st birthday and I’m sure many of you thought that night probably killed me so let’s catch up for just a sec… First of all, I […]
Well, the time has come. I’m turning 21 today, and I couldn’t think of anything more on-brand to celebrate the big day than to combine alcohol with history and count you guys down to my […]
It’s hard to know whether or not the fact Antonia Felix’s “Elizabeth Warren: Her Fight. Her Work. Her Life,” reads like a young adult version of a more complex and mature text is a good […]
Wow. It’s not only the end of another month, but it’s also practically the end of summer! I’ve even seen that Pumpkin Spice is starting to make its annual invasion. The rest of my summer […]
It doesn’t come as a surprise that Peter Rader’s “Playing to the Gods: Sarah Bernhardt, Eleonora Duse, and the Rivalry That Changed Acting Forever” began as a screenplay. The simultaneously opulent and tragic world of […]
For a while, like most people, I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life. I’ve always loved to write but I also always loved history. When I chose to go to […]
Everyone loves a good spy story. The highest-grossing movies and T.V. shows seem to be filled with dangerous missions and clever aliases. All I’ve been hearing the past several weeks is how good the new […]
At its core, Karen Piper’s memoir “A Girl’s Guide to Missiles: Growing up in America’s Secret Desert” is about war. However, it’s not just about military warfare and the weapons used to wage it, developed […]
I had the opportunity a year ago to attend the Southeast premiere of “Loving Vincent,” the movie about Vincent van Gogh’s death animated entirely in painted frames inspired by his classic style. What struck me […]
Every time I sit down to write my Frequent Fascinations at the end of each month, I always start off by saying “Well, it’s that time of the month.” Then I realize that that could […]
“Two capital T’s stand in the way of [women’s] progress,” Amelia Earhart said once to a group of young ladies. “One is Training—or lack of it. The other, Tradition.” In “Fly Girls: How Five Daring […]
When I was in fifth grade, we had a career unit in our social studies class called “J.A. Biztown.” We learned about interview techniques, job applications, financial literacy and business skills and the whole course […]
One of the biggest majors at my art school is fashion and the kids studying it intimidate the hell out of me. In fact, when I first found out that my first two roommates were […]
Perhaps the most resonant line in Allie Rowbottom’s “JELL-O Girls” is the following: “We are all connected, we women, we JELL-O girls, bound by a web of common experience.” It could be true that all […]
As a child, I had this particular knack at getting what seemed like annual cases of both pink eye and strep throat and so I spent many a time at the doctor’s office. I would […]
Is it just me or did it seem like July lasted WAY longer than most months seem to? Most of the time when I sit down to write my Frequent Fascinations for the month, it […]
I can’t begin to tell you how frustrating it is to find a truly wonderful story for this site, dig into the research a little more and then find out that most of it is […]
I love nearly everything about summer except for my allergies. As someone who was told to “build a bubble because, honey, you are allergic to the world” by the PA at the allergist’s office, the […]
This past Saturday marked the one hundred year anniversary of Quentin Roosevelt’s death in aerial combat over France. Now, this struck me for two reasons. The first is that Quentin was born nearly one hundred […]
I promised months ago in my post on Caterina Sforza that I would talk about Christine de Pizan, the medieval figure I chose to be for Medieval Day in the ninth grade. In looking back at […]
So I realize it isn’t the end of the month but I’ve been gone for two months during which I’ve found a lot of new obsessions too delightful not to share. If you don’t know […]
From an early age, it was clear that science just wasn’t my thing. I really tried but my style of thinking couldn’t break down huge concepts to smaller levels. I loved watching “Bill Nye the […]
Yes, she lives and she is profoundly sorry for her two-month absence. But, she is back and for some reason talking in the third person. First things first, thank you so much for your patience […]
Recently, I’ve started to feel older. Not old, necessarily, just older and more aware of the history I’ve seen in my life. I’ve started to realize that I’ve lived through events that people will ask […]
Because this blog site has yet to live through Christmas, you have yet to experience the pure euphoria the holiday season brings me. Every year, around this time, I start to go through withdrawal and […]
Well, yet another month has whizzed on by…I can’t believe tomorrow is May. It seems like I barely had time to be obsessed by anything other than sleep. Nonetheless, I have five wonderful picks that […]