Interesting people: Yvonne “Miss Dixie” Fasnacht

Hi, folks– Yeah, I know. Sunday and the livin’ in crazy. I came across a short article today about a woman named Yvonne “Miss Dixie” Fasnacht, who was a local legend in New Orleans. She died a few days ago at the age of 101, and was known for a variety of things: musician, gay [...]

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When spirits walk among us…

So here we are, friends. It’s Halloween again. And my personal fave holiday, Día(s) de los Muertos. I love this time of year in this hemisphere, at the boundary between fall and winter, when the harvests are coming in and the earth digs its feet into November like an animal settling in for a long [...]

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Labor Day

Hi, all– Day late and a dollar short, but here I am! WOOOO! How is everyone? I hope you all have a nice Labor Day weekend, but because I’m a geekoid and historian to boot, I’d just like to remind you all what the purpose of this holiday is. Read on to see…

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Feeling under the weather?

Yeah, well, 29 million of your fellow Americans certainly are. Go catch my blog at The Situation Room for some handy links on the origins of hurricanes and emergency preparedness. Even if you aren’t in the path of Hurricane Irene, it’s always good to have some stuff ready in case of…well, whatever. Rampaging rabid unicorns, [...]

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Pride…and Prejudice

Hi, folks– For those of you who identify as LGBT, June is a special month, because it commemorates the birth of the modern LGBT rights movement. If you’re interested, PBS ran a stunning documentary about Stonewall, called Stonewall Uprising. source To this day, I still cry at Pride marches, and I think about that first [...]

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The past is present

Hi, folks– I’ve been pondering, lately. So settle in, get a nice beverage of whatever, and sit back. This is a long-ish ride. I recently watched a DVD called Ballot Measure 9, a documentary produced and directed by Heather Lyn MacDonald. It was originally released in 1995. the DVD was released in 2008, I believe, [...]

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D is for…

Hi, kids! Popping in to keep up the Alphabet Soup Tour. D is for…umm… D’Nealian! What the hell is that, you may ask? It’s a style of writing used to teach people how to write cursive and block print. I bring this up because cursive is dying. I have fond memories, weirdly, of learning how [...]

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A is for…

Hi, folks! So all of us here at Women and Words are doing this thing this month called “blogging the alphabet.” What that means is each of us is assigned specific letters of the alphabet throughout the month of April. So since I was assigned “A” on this, the first day of April (April! A!) [...]

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In With the New

Hi, everyone. I hope you all had a great New Year’s Eve. It’s hard to believe that it’s 2011. Where does the time go? I was having a discussion with someone (as opposed to myself) over the weekend about how the publishing industry has changed over the last few decades. Printing, as we know it, [...]

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