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Morning Open Thread: The World Offers Itself to Your Imagination
“Your world is as big as you make it. I know, for I used to abide In the narrowest nest in a corner, My wings pressing close to my side.”...
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WOW2: September's Trailblazing Women and Events in Our History - 9-17 through...
“My father was a physicist and also an activist. My first public protest was with my dad at Stanford. I came by all that honestly.”–Joan Baez, Singer-Songwriter, Peace and Social Justice...
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Morning Open Thread: What You Must Hold to Your Heart
“Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.”– Franklin D. RooseveltWelcome to Morning Open Thread, a daily...
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WOW2: September's Trailblazing Women and Events in Our History - 9-24 through...
“I never thought in terms of fear. I thought in terms of justice.”―EmmaTenayuca, Mexican-American labor organizer and civil rights activist.WOW2 is a four-times-a-month sister blog to This Week in the...
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Morning Open Thread: Acts of Rebellion and the Language of Bridges
“Poetry has never been the languageof barriers, it's always beenthe language of bridges.”– Amanda GormanWelcome to Morning Open Thread, a daily post with a MOTley crew of hosts who choose the topic for...
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WOW2: October's Trailblazing Women and Events in Our History - 10-1 through 10-7
“We especially need imagination in science. It is not all logic, nor all mathematics, but is somewhat beauty and poetry.–Maria Mitchell, the first American woman professional...
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Morning Open Thread: Inclusive, Diverse, Free – Libraries Are For Everyone
."You want weapons? We’re in a library. Books are the best weapon in the world. This room’s the greatest arsenal we could have. Arm yourself!"–Doctor Who (Screenwriter-Producer Russell T....
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WOW2: October's Trailblazing Women and Events in Our History - 10-8 through...
“With guns, you can kill terrorists, with education you can kill terrorism.”–Malala Yousafzai, youngest Nobel Peace Prize winner_________________________.WOW2 is a four-times-a-month sister blog to...
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Morning Open Thread: A Hundred Years Hence
“The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim...
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WOW2: October's Trailblazing Women and Events in Our History - 10-16 through...
We're not going to create a more equal society by not prodding at it, are we?–Laura Wade, English playwright_________________________.WOW2 is a four-times-a-month sister blog to This Week in the War on...
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Morning Open Thread: Black Poetry Day - "This Freedom ... This Beautiful and...
“What does it mean to be a poet in a country where more money per minute is spent on armaments, when we are supposed to be at peace, than is spent to feed the starving children …When the price of one...
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WOW2: October's Trailblazing Women and Events in Our History - 10-24 through...
“Now we see, the ballot has no color line and is colorblind.”–Marie Foster, Black American Civil Rights activist, from her speech October 5, 1963_________________________.WOW2 is a four-times-a-month...
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Morning Open Thread: ‘Is There Anybody There?’
It is a mistake to fancy that horror is associated inextricably with darkness, silence and solitude.–H. P. Lovecraft.Welcome to Morning Open Thread, a daily post with a MOTley crew of hosts who choose...
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Bookchat: The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
Welcome to Bookchat! Where you can talk about anything; books, plays, essays, and audio books. You don’t have to be reading a book to come in, sit down, and chat with us..Some books arrive in your life...
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Morning Open Thread: “For on All Hallows Eve Will the Spirits Come to Play”
“Oh how the candles will be lit and the wood of worm burn in a fiery dust. For on all Hallow's Eve will the spirits come to play ...”–Solange Nicole, author, musician, and photographer.Welcome to...
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WOW2: November's Trailblazing Women and Events in Our History - 11-1 through...
“Women are problem solvers, and often we don't get much credit for that because the typical image of a leader is someone who's loud, obnoxious, chest-pounding. That's not my vision of what true...
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Morning Open Thread: The Mystery of Rhythm — What Explains Poetry
“I’m a great believer in poetry outof the classroom, in public places,on subways, trains, on cocktailnapkins. I’d rather have my poemson the subway than around theseminar table at an MFA...
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WOW2: November's Trailblazing Women and Events in Our History - 11-9 through...
“The whole world opened to me when I learned to read.”―Mary McLeod Bethune, African-American Civil and Women’s Rights Leader, Educator, member of FDR’s Federal Council of Negro Affairs (his “black...
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Morning Open Thread: The Razory Edges and the Mutterings of Fate
I do not believe in fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in fate that falls on them unless they act.– G. K. Chesterton.Welcome to Morning Open Thread, a daily post with a MOTley...
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WOW2: November's Trailblazing Women and Events in Our History -11-17 thru 11-23
"I demand more rights for women because I know what women can do."–Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, President of Liberia, (2006-2018), first woman to be elected as an African head of state; 2011 Nobel Peace...
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