Tell the Story
For today’s guest post in my Women’s History Month series, Nest-Making, I’m very happy to join Shannon in honoring her grandmother, Viola Sylvesta, whose 100th birthday is this week. :: She was born in the Spring of 1912. To a family with brother and sisters and a father whose dreams kept them destitute in a way that we, two […]
read moreI remember my elementary school teachers’ names and faces and words and clothes–Mrs. Gaddy (1st grade), Mrs. Stephens (2nd), Mrs. DePuy (3rd and 6th), and Mrs. Tabachi (5th)–but 4th grade is a blur. Meredith Shadwill remembers 4th grade in today’s Nest-Making guest post Women’s History Month, and celebrates the empowering influence Mrs. Notowitz. :: My fourth grade teacher Mrs. Notowitz […]
read moreThis month we’re remembering and honoring and celebrating women who’ve gone before us by telling their stories. Today’s Nest-Making post by Ann Wijkstrom takes a slightly different tack, thanking a man who reminds us that our mothers’ work is not yet done. :: Would I like to honor someone during Women’s History Month? Well of […]
read moreSometimes a piece of writing exemplifies the beauty it describes. This post by Illuminary is that kind of writing, part of a series called Nest-Making, in honor of women and Women’s History Month. :: Anyone who tells you that you are shaped and fashioned by those who love you, only has half of it. I […]
read moreThis post is the third in a series of guest posts in honor of Women’s History Month, nests for ourselves and others. Welcome, lovely D Smith Kaich Jones. :: I am built of the small moments gifted by women I have known, pieces of gold stacked helter skelter against the sides of my soul. in […]
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For years I kept secrets in silence. Then, once upon a time, I spoke and wrote them to a handful of people and began to blog anonymously. Today I tell my stories face-to-face, online, and in a memoir coming soon. Telling our stories leads to freedom, empowerment, and growth, for both the teller and the told. Is today your once upon a time, your time to tell your story?
