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My Favorite Posts

These posts are either personal favorites or over time have received a very high number of visits, Likes or comments. — Sallie.

Eating Alone

May 21st, 2017 by Sallie Bingham in My Family 18 Comments

Eating Alone

Last night I noticed how a repetitive task—each leaf pulled off the stalk, dipped in French dressing, and eaten—demands a particular sort of attention.

In My Family Food 17 Favorites of 2017

The Female of the Species

November 20th, 2016 by Sallie Bingham in Women, Politics, Kentucky 5 Comments

Wolf Pen Farm - Kentucky Progress Magazine

No connection erases the primal fear that is a constant in our culture: the fear of the power of women.

In Women, Politics, Kentucky Hillary Clinton Donald Trump Million Women March 16 Favorites of 2016 Wolf Pen Branch Mill Farm

I Didn’t Believe It

November 6th, 2016 by Sallie Bingham in Kentucky 15 Comments

Big Four Pedestrian Bridge: Louisville, Kentucky

My hometown city of Louisville, Kentucky is blooming as it never has before.

In Kentucky Louisville 16 Favorites of 2016

Too Much

October 11th, 2016 by Sallie Bingham in Politics 14 Comments

Damnatio ad bestias. Third-century AD mosaic in the Museum of El Djem (Tunisia)

I’ve avoided writing about what is going on in our presidential election, not wanting to focus more attention on this ignoble display. But Sunday night was too much.

In Politics Hillary Clinton Donald Trump 16 Favorites of 2016

The Beauty Way

September 14th, 2016 by Sallie Bingham in New Mexico, Travel 19 Comments

The Beauty Way

Since I first moved to Santa Fe twenty-five years ago, I’ve longed to gain an authentic and appropriate understanding of the people among whom we live and who were here long before us, and will remain.

In New Mexico, Travel 16 Favorites of 2016 Canyon de Chelly Earthwalks

Touch

August 2nd, 2016 by Sallie Bingham in New Mexico, Religion 12 Comments

It has always been clear to me that words, on which I’ve built my creative life, can’t heal. They can illuminate and inspire… but those same words would be powerless to heal in the face of tragedy.

In New Mexico, Religion Virginia Woolf

My Writing Group: The Little Engine That Could

July 1st, 2016 by Sallie Bingham in Writing 5 Comments

My Writing Group

For any of you who think, or have thought, about starting a writing group, here is a model that works.

In Writing Taos 16 Favorites of 2016 Writing

Thirty Years Ago…

January 10th, 2016 by Sallie Bingham in My Family, Kentucky 30 Comments

Those of us who are still alive must try to thrive outside of the tight circuit of the myth, which might be summed up in the Biblical phrase, “How are the mighty fallen!”

In My Family, Kentucky Courier-Journal Barry Bingham Sr. Barry Bingham Jr. 16 Favorites of 2016

Doris Duke in Pictures and the Deconstruction of the Past

November 19th, 2015 by Sallie Bingham in Writing 6 Comments

Doris Duke - Tex McCrary

My chapters about Doris’ war-time service are some of the most revealing, and most controversial, in my upcoming biography.

In Writing Doris Duke Tex McCrary George Patton

Hopscotch House

September 10th, 2015 by Sallie Bingham in Women, Philanthropy 6 Comments

Hopscotch House - Nicci Mechler

Thirty years ago, it was a big plain farmhouse on a high rise of pasture when I first saw what would become Hopscotch House.

In Women, Philanthropy Kentucky Foundation for Women

Birth: The Kentucky Foundation for Women

March 17th, 2015 by Sallie Bingham in Women, Philanthropy, Kentucky, Art 2 Comments

Kentucky Foundation for Women

Women artists are always in danger of extinction; already low on the pay scale, often with too many children and no support, they can hardly be expected to devote their limited time and energy to becoming proficient professional poets, painters, sculptors…

In Women, Philanthropy, Kentucky, Art Kentucky Foundation for Women

Wolf Pen Farm: Not A Bingham Estate!

February 22nd, 2015 by Sallie Bingham in Kentucky, Philanthropy 22 Comments

Wolf Pen Branch Mill Farm

Wolf Pen is the way many people in this country lived, when we were still agrarian and made do with much less, in the material sense, than we consider essential now. We lived in a few small rooms, we farmed, milled, carpentered, built, ran cattle or horses—managed to survive.

In Kentucky, Philanthropy Wolf Pen Branch Mill Farm

Rude Awakening

January 20th, 2015 by Sallie Bingham in Women, Kentucky 1 Comment

Old Woman in Sunbonnet by Doris Ulmann

I… felt the midwives, and Mrs. Breckinridge, were just as foreign to me, possessed of some vision, some energy I’d never encountered before. I felt very small and very ignorant among them.

In Women, Kentucky Kentucky Frontier Nursing University midwifery Appalachia Doris Ulmann John Jacob Niles

The Three Goddesses in One by Paz Winshtein

December 30th, 2014 by Sallie Bingham in Women, New Mexico, Art 2 Comments

Virgin of Guadaloupe - Paz Winshtein

The image of the Virgin of Guadalupe is especially prized here because of her Mexican antecedents, and yet, even though she represents a beleaguered minority, she must still be seen only in the terms set by the church, terms that have constricted the image, and confused women followers, for hundreds of years.

In Women, New Mexico, Art Virgin Mary Eye on the Mountain Art Gallery Paz Winshtein Virgin of Guadalupe

Starting Something: The Women’s Project, New York

June 1st, 2012 by Sallie Bingham in Women, Philanthropy, Writing, Theater 2 Comments

Milk of Paradise

It was the 1980’s and the three of us-Julia, Joan and I-were possessed by the spirit of the times-that energizing, reckless, laughing spirit that was born of the modern women’s movement. We could do anything. Even stir up trouble.

In Women, Philanthropy, Writing, Theater Women's Project Milk of Paradise women's movement The American Place Theatre Julia Miles Joan Vail Thorne

Women, Power and Money

May 15th, 2012 by Sallie Bingham in Women, Philanthropy 1 Comment

Photo of Sweet Briar College

When you have learned to use your money, and your power, you will arrive at an appreciation of your womanhood unlike anything you have ever imagined.

In Women, Philanthropy Kentucky Foundation for Women Lady Mary Wortley Montague speech "Winter Term" Judy Chicago

 

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Taken By The Shawnee

Taken By The Shawnee

July 6th, 2025
Sallie Bingham introduces and reads from her latest work, Taken by the Shawnee.
Visiting Linda Stein

Visiting Linda Stein

March 3rd, 2025
Back on October 28th, 2008, I visited artist Linda Stein's studio in New York City and tried on a few of her handmade suits of armor.

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Rebecca Reynolds & Salie Bingham at SOMOS

Rebecca Reynolds & Salie Bingham at SOMOS

November 8th, 2024
This event was recorded November 1, 2024 in Taos, NM at SOMOS Salon & Bookshop by KCEI Radio, Red River/Taos and broadcast on November 8, 2024.
Taken by the Shawnee Reading

Taken by the Shawnee Reading

September 1st, 2024
This reading took place at The Church of the Holy Faith in Santa Fe, New Mexico in August of 2024.

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Recent Press

Sallie Bingham's latest is a captivating account of ancestor's ordeal
Pasatiempo, The Santa Fe New Mexican

“I felt she was with me” during the process of writing the book, Bingham says. “I felt I wasn’t writing anything that would have seemed to her false or unreal.”

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