1. We slept through the snow last night. I didn’t even realize it had snowed until I heard the plows scraping down Columbus Ave. By the time I got to the window it was all half-melted slush. It looked like there hadn’t been that much of it to begin with. They say a big one’s coming, … Continue reading Snowplow
One hundred sixty six years ago today (how’s that for obscure!), Elizabeth Blackwell graduated from Geneva Medical College in western New York, becoming America’s first female M.D. In honor of this anniversary, I’ve been skimming her autobiography, Pioneering Work in Opening the Medical Profession to Women, in which she very candidly discusses her motivations for pursuing a career in medicine, … Continue reading A look at the autobiography of America’s first female doctor, on the anniversary of her receiving an M.D.
The Paris Review has an interview with Alice Munro; I think from an older issue (because it doesn’t mention her 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature), but it popped up in my feed today, and I hadn’t seen it before. In any case, I enjoyed it so much that I have tweeted it twice and am now blogging about … Continue reading Alice Munro on Writing…
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