by Michele Genthon | Dec 30, 2013 | FIRST WOMEN, Politics and Government
When I featured Margaret Chase Smith as the Woman of Note on December 14, I knew she was a woman of many firsts. It was not until I researched further that I learned she was also a woman of great wisdom whose words resonate today....
by Michele Genthon | Dec 23, 2013 | FIRST WOMEN, Military and Crusaders, MUSINGS, Reflecting
Every day I post a Woman of Note on this blog and once a week I post a biography of a First Woman To. . .During almost six months I have posted 163 daily Women of Note and 26 biographies. Ten of those Women of Note were women whose accomplishments were as members of...
by Michele Genthon | Dec 16, 2013 | Arts, Entertainment, and Media, Business and Economics, Education and STEM, FIRST WOMEN, Law and Law Enforcement, Military and Crusaders, Politics and Government, Sports and Adventure
I received the lovely grace of being able to spend the fall in Southern Europe. I enjoyed the quality of life and the freedom from the usual daily responsibilities, but I missed out on being in touch with the news from the United States. When I returned to a pile of...
by Michele Genthon | Dec 9, 2013 | Education and STEM, FIRST WOMEN
“A ship in port is safe; but that is not what ships are built for. Sail out to sea and do new things.” [Grace Hopper] Grace Hopper was first in areas where men had not even trod before. She refused to believe that a computer could only perform arithmetic and was...
by Michele Genthon | Dec 2, 2013 | Arts, Entertainment, and Media, FIRST WOMEN
“I think all wars are a tragedy, and to critique it, you have to look at it. . .to examine and experience the futility of war, to engage in that subject and treat it as a raw, primal, experiential observation.” [Kathryn Bigelow] Kathryn Bigelow is a visual artist and...