Reading and Roaming
READING—FEMALE DOCTORS The Doctors Blackwell by Janice P. Nimura The book’s subtitle: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine, aptly captures the mission of Elizabeth and Emily Blackwell. Born in Bristol, England, into a large family, Elizabeth and Emily emigrated to Cincinnati when they were just eleven and six. Although not wealthy, their parents prized …
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INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY Tomorrow, March 8, is International Women’s Day. The theme for 2021 is Women in Leadership: Achieving an Equal Future in a Covid-19 World. IWD was started in 1910 at the suggestion of a woman named Clara Zetkin at a conference of working women in Copenhagen. In 1914, Germany marked the day on March 8 because it was a …
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WHAT A WONDERFUL WEEK! The inauguration of Joe Biden as U.S. President and Kamala Harris as Vice-President was marvelous and memorable in so many ways. A reset in tone, a return to competence, a series of firsts, and the beginning of an administration more representative in gender, race, background, and experience than the previous one. …
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ON THE SCREEN Holiday Cooking Class The other evening, we enjoyed a cooking demonstration. Clarkson University, the Chief Penguin’s alma mater, invited alumni to see and join their campus chef in the preparation of several dishes. They included a colorful cranberry and whiskey cocktail, baked brie, baby potatoes wrapped in bacon, and julienned root vegetables with pistachio …
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