Here an interview with the lovely Grace Finnegan about her book Grace and Grit! https://newbooksnetwork.com/grace-grit
Author: Renee Garris
Professor of Humanities, art lover, world traveler, and yogini.
Podcasts for the Travel Season!
Women’s History General History (with a twist) **** All of these can be found wherever you listen to podcasts – Enjoy!
Women Journalists in Viet Nam
This is a video from March – the Virginia War Memorial
Making a Name for Themselves
Video from a March presentation for the Virginia War Memorial
And Then Came Dance
https://newbooksnetwork.com/and-then-came-dance This is a link to my recent interview with Professor Stanley Rabinowitz and his beautiful analysis of the troublesome Akin Volynsky.
Martha Graham’s Cold War
Victoria Phillips book Martha Graham’s Cold War The Dance of American Diplomacy takes the reader through a history of dance, politics, and travel. This fascinating look at how one woman -who claimed to not be a feminist although she was certainly progressive for her time – brought American ideals to the world’s center stage. Long…
Salt Houses – book review
Hala Alyan’s novel Salt Houses is a thoughtful narrative of family and the destructive nature of war from a Palestinian perspective. Her deft use of imagery leaves the reader in the cool gardens of one generation to the blasting air conditioning of the next. Alyan’s characters are centralized around the feminine narratives that weave through…
Why is the mundane so exciting?
Why has the world become so interested in the mundane? While TikTok’s popularity has increased during the COVid shutdown, it is not an anomaly in social media. Take for instance the popularity of such Reddit category’s as “Mildly Interesting” or “TIL”. One could at least understand the interest if a bit of trivia is on…
A Lady-Cult
Early this morning I came across a tweet from a historian who was offering to establish a “lady historian cult” in a beautiful home she had found on a realty site. Like 90 other people (within an hour’s time), I signaled my desire to join the lady historian cult by saying “I’m quiet, pick-up after…
Losing your way and finding a new practice
Yoga is a journey that takes us from physical practices on the mat to mental gymnastics as we grapple with meaning and sutras. Many of us felt comfortable (dare I say complacent) in our routines before the pandemic of COVid 19 and are now looking for new ways to understand the world. This is certainly…
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