Under the Gables

There is no question that December is one of the busiest times of the year for many women, and hopefully for most. Aside from all the things...

Here are photos of two murals at 3922 Aspen Street in Philadelphia. Philadelphia is the mural capital of the USA. An organization called Mur...

Please see Allsorts for a picture of the kind of mouse we all need in our homes. Jenny Harris makes adorable little critters. It is the thi...

Promises to Keep: Why Poor Women Put Motherhood Before Marriage (University of California Press, 2005, 293 pages) is well worth reading for...

Quilt from Pennsylvania, 1865 The American Quilt Story: The How-to and Heritage of a Craft Tradition , which was given to me by a kind frien...

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, professor of history at Harvard University, has written a new book entitled Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History ....

See Columba for an article on the courageous Zora Neale Hurston, novelist, writer, and folklorist, who worked all her life to celebrate Afr...