archives, Family History, history, memory, Oral History, Uncategorized, Women, women's history
Women love my work. When I talk, their eyes light up and they lean in. My real passion, my mission in life and on this planet, is women’s history: gathering, growing, saving, and sharing it. But as women, we mostly have been raised in cultures that valued...
archives, Family History, Uncategorized, Women, women's history
[ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED BY THE BLESSINGS BUTTERFLY] I love goddess imagery. I’m getting to be a big girl and I have started to really tap into the power of that imagery and correlate it to my new size. I say I’m big and strong and I won’t blow away in the wind! I’m...
Family History, history, memory, photography, women's history
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED BY BORN TO RISE. When I was working as an academic archivist, a state Endangered Species Committee contacted me to review some family camping photos that we held. Somehow they’d gotten wind of a photographed, dated sighting “in the wild” of some...
Children, Family History, mom, Oral History, Prematurity, special needs kids, women's history
“You were going clink clink clink, and I was going push push push!” That’s how I laughingly describe New Year’s Eve 2006, and it is true! And it is the very tip of the ice berg — because she was full term. Our first child stayed behind in...
Children, Family History, memory, mom, Oral History, women's history
I LOVE oral history projects. In addition to be an opportunity to find out facts that leave no trace of documentation, they are full of surprises and human voices hold so much familiarity, love, and memory for my clients. I was pre-interviewing a client recently about...
I spent 18 years as “archivist and senior research scholar” at an academic science library, actively trying to add women to the historical record and looking for the women who were already included almost accidentally. I have degrees in women’s history and cultural theory — the latter means that I see the cultural value of everyday practices such as food, clothing, hobbies, and domestic arrangements. Non-famous people matter.