In grade school, kids learn about fire drills and severe weather drills; they learn about what foods to eat and what to do when encountering strangers. But what about getting educated on what to do if someone touches them inappropriately?
That’s Erin Merryn’s argument for the passage of Erin’s Law, a bill that would allocate funding [...]
Posts under ‘Interesting People’
Erin’s Law and the Courageous Woman Fighting for Its Passage
Four Women in Space Sets Record—Maybe Someday, Events Like This Won’t Make the News
Today was an historic day for women in space: four women are now orbiting Earth at the same time—something that has never before been done.
With this morning’s launch of the space shuttle Discovery, three women joined one woman already in space working aboard the International Space Station. Four women have never before been in space [...]
A Tribute to Generation X: A Generation that Gives
I’m not really one for sticking a stereotype on an entire generation of people, but well, here goes:
I’m a member of “Generation X,” a term given to those of us born in the ’60s and ’70s. Once upon a time, we kinda had a reputation for being ’slackers.’ For being a cynical and disenchanted group. Maybe [...]
World War II Women Pilots Soon to Get the Recognition They Deserve
Perhaps you’d like to know why a teenage girl from Avon Park, Florida wanted to learn to fly in the first place… because I wanted to show all those good looking male cadet instructors that girls could fly just as good as the boys. – Deanie Bishop Parrish, as stated in her journal on the [...]
Spotlight on a Cool Product Created by a Nice Guy: Readeez!
I don’t often do product reviews on this blog. But every now and then I come across something that’s so great I like to share it with our readers. I’ve blogged about the wonders of Boogie Wipes. Well here’s another product I’d like to mention that I love: Readeez.
What’s Readeez? Well, it’s a lot of [...]
Meet Daisy Rock: Guitars Made Just for Girls!
Girls who play softball don’t use men’s baseball gloves. They use a glove made just for their smaller hands. So shouldn’t girls who have an interest in music play instruments made just for them?
That’s what Tish Ciravolo thought. A musican herself, she realized that girls who aspired to be guitar players faced an obstacle: they [...]
Can a 13-Year-Old Girl Be a Fashion Star? We Say Yes!
Have you ever heard of Tavi Gevinson? If not, you probably will soon. She’s a 13 year old girl from suburban Chicago. Like most kids her age, she attends junior high. But unlike most, she writes a fashion blog that has put her on the cover of magazines made her name known around the world.
She began her [...]
