O’Keeffe’s assertion of ownership of a mountain is outrageous and refreshingly so, in itself affirming that she was not a “nice woman.”
Brace Up
As we advance into—and, I hope, through—various stages of panic and hysteria because of the virus, I am reminded of what the British went through during the German Blitz in World War Two.
My Mother’s Hat — The Blue Box
I have the historian’s skeptical view of the past and of the vestal virgins who attend it so assiduously. Their reverence seems to depend on a net of lies and denials. But when I touch the soft feathers of my mother’s hat, preserved for seventy years, I understand a little of what the other women in the family feel.
And The Good News Is…
The first review of my next book, “The Blue Box: Three Lives in Letters”, is just in from the prestigious Kirkus Reviews from which many libraries order.