I have selected 100 women writers from my bookshelf and researched whether or not they had children. Below, are my findings (in alphabetical order). A quick note: I accomplished my “research” quickly and exclusively online. If no children were mentioned within the first three biographies, I noted the writer as having zero children. If you [...]
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100 Ladies on my Bookshelf
Posted in MidWees, tagged feminism, History, literature, motherhood, Statistics, women, Women's Issues, writing on March 19, 2009 | 4 Comments »
A Review in E-Prime
Posted in The Essays, tagged Alfred Korzybski, Choice Prime, Dr. David Bourland Jr., E-Prime, Emory Menefee, feminism, George Santayana, Identity, Language, Letter of the Law, linguistic relativity hypothesis, Linguistics, motherhood, Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis, Semantics, Spirit of the Law, women, Words, writing, Zuni on March 16, 2009 | 5 Comments »
I learned about E-prime several years ago, while drinking PBR on the front steps of a friend’s apartment. We smoked cigarettes against a spring dusk sky. We ashed into empty PBR cans abandoned previous nights, similarly spent. My friend, we’ll call him M. described a language that disregarded all forms of the verb “to be” [...]
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