Write Now, Here’s How by Linda M. Hasselstrom belongs on your shelf right next to books by Anne Lamott and Julia Cameron. The opportunity to review it was one of […]
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Raising Anti-Racist Children: Answering Questions from my White Friends
On Day One this year, teachers of preschoolers or kindergarteners at parochial schools just might want to send home a copy of Alicea Jones’ Raising Anti-Racist Children in their students’ […]
Read MoreThe Book of Old Ladies: Celebrating Women Of A Certain Age In Fiction
“The Book of Old Ladies: Celebrating Women of a Certain Age in Fiction” is the work of Dr. Ruth O. Saxton, and she deserves our admiration just for finishing the […]
Read MoreSeasons of Moon and Flame
Danielle Dulsky’s Seasons of Moon and Flame has now been added to my bookshelf–a handy, visible shelf filled with books by Starhawk, Zsuzsanna Budapest, Clarissa Pinkola Estes, and Carol Christ. […]
Read MoreThe Earth in Her Hands: 75 Extraordinary Women Working in the World of Plants
For millennia, as Jennifer Jewell points out in the Introduction to The Earth in Her Hands, women’s work with plants was not acknowledged or rewarded. Which did not make it […]
Read MoreThe Overly Honest Teacher
The Overly Honest Teacher, by former teacher and administrator Meredith Essalat, M.Ed., is an urgent, intelligent book about forging sound parent-teacher relationships. Aiming to “strengthen and improve advocacy” for today’s […]
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