Posts by Pamela
Jane Matilda Bolin: Another Guest Post by Rebecca Bratspies
I am delighted to have Rebecca Bratspies back with another story about a woman who deserves to be remembered. On July 22, 1939 Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia appointed Jane Matilda Bolin to the New York City Domestic Relations Court (now the Family Court). This made Bolin the very first Black woman to serve as a…
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From the Archives: You Could Look it Up.
As I write this, the deadline for my manuscript is 11 days away. (Eek!) I am deep in revision mode. It’s not a straight line process. I just added 134 words to a chapter from which I need to cut many, many words. Thousands of words. And yet the chapter is better for it. (Though…
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From the Archives: Running on Railroad Time
In case you haven’t heard, I am still deep in book mode. May 1 approaches, and I am doing the revision hokey-pokey. (Put the right words in, take the wrong words out, but the right words, and you shake it all about.) While I turn myself around, here is a post for your amusement that…
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