Francesca Caccini (1587-1646): The First Woman to Compose an Opera
I’ve always been an insomniac and of late I’ve become a regular listener of the app Calm’s Sleep...
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Author: Maria Dintino
Sandra Cisneros: Bridging Borders, Mexican-American (1954)
A house on Mango Street. Sounds exotic, doesn’t it? Turns out the house and street are not so...
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Katalin Karikó: The biochemist who persisted!
Update: Since discovering scientist Katalin Karikó and the role she’s played in the...
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Wanderers: A History of Women Walking by Kerri Andrews (2020)
I’m what people call ‘a walker.’ There is rarely a day that passes that I do not intentionally go...
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May Sarton: Leaping the Waterfalls (1912-1995 American)
Spending summer 2021 in New Hampshire, I drive through Nelson quite often these days. Each time I...
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Hannah Davis: Early Entrepreneur Extraordinaire
On an excursion to visit novelist Willa Cather’s gravesite in Jaffrey, New Hampshire last month,...
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Sonya Renee Taylor: The Map Back to Ourselves
Since reading Sonya Renee Taylor’s book The Body Is Not An Apology: The Power of Radical...
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Willa Cather: A Forever View of the Mountain
Last week, my sister Theresa and I took advantage of the opportunity to visit the grave of...
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The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women – And Women to Medicine by Janice P. Nimura (2021)
On January 23, 1849, Elizabeth Blackwell was awarded a medical degree. She was the first woman in...
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