HOT DOWN, SUMMER IN THE CITY!

While summer is always touted as a time for fun in the sun, our guest blogger, Rebecca Rodriguez shares a different take! It’s here.  100+ degree weather, sunshine, and the scent of sunscreen looms heavily in every store I walk into that must have their air conditioner set below 60 degrees.  I take a sweater…

Fairies NOT Permitted

This fairy has a great story. But like many of us, pervading attitudes about ‘her type’ sometimes prevent it from being heard! Let’s use Women’s History Month to keep practicing the open-mindedness we reinforced during Black History month. Perpetuating Stereotypes: Apparently it is fine for girls to be served a never-ending diet of male superheroes…

ODE TO A FRIEND

This is the first year since I was 12 that my friend and collaborator Joan Smith Grey did not wish me a happy birthday. In recent years I was so glad that my birthday was one week before hers. The arrival of some wonderful, fun package in the mail always reminded me it was time…