by Michele Genthon | Oct 13, 2014 | MUSINGS, Traveling
Vienna was bookended by two fabulous meals. The first night we ate tafelspitz at Plachutta’s restaurant. This is a dinner of boiled meat served with horseradish. For our version, the meal came to the table in the pot. First you ladle out a bowl of the broth and...
by Michele Genthon | Oct 13, 2014 | MUSINGS, Traveling
Some of the readers of this blog do not know my husband, Gary Zimmerman, so I will introduce him to you. A retired chemistry professor and university CEO, he spends his retirement running a genealogy library. In addition he has some personal clients and one of those...
by Michele Genthon | Oct 13, 2014 | FIRST WOMEN, Law and Law Enforcement
While studying for my Ph.D. in higher education management at the University of Michigan I took a law course taught by Virginia Nordby. The first day I walked into her class, I thought she was another student. She sat at the round table in the classroom quietly...
by Michele Genthon | Oct 9, 2014 | FIRST WOMEN, Sports and Adventure
I am struck by two things about Annika Sorenstam’s career as a golfer: her persistent rise from one first for women to another; and the fact that, even as late as 2003, she experienced discrimination because of her gender. Annika was born in Sweden where she excelled...
by Michele Genthon | Oct 1, 2014 | MUSINGS, Traveling
You have to love a city where they serve prosecco with salami and pickles for breakfast. Salzburg is a charming city under any circumstances, devoted to Mozart and his fellow musicians, Even the Archbishop Dresses for the Festival but we happened to arrive for St....
