Colorado Legacy: My “Subject Minerals”

In a strange turn of events, I recently received more than $5,000 as a “signing bonus” for leasing to an Continue reading →

On Food: From Tuna Fish Casserole to the Age of Arugula

I have long believed that the opening salvo of second-wave feminism was fired in 1960, several years ahead of its Continue reading →

Finding Claudia Jones

When I retired from academic life in the early 2000s I turned my attention from the Middle Ages to the Continue reading →

P.S. Not So Silent

Memory can take you in unexpected directions. I wrote recently about student summer travel in the 1950s, and after the Continue reading →

Happy Birthday from Barcelona

I would have loved a birthday text from my granddaughter under any circumstances, and I was especially pleased with a Continue reading →

Generations

My generation, born between 1928 and 1945, was identified as Silent when many of us were still too young to Continue reading →

“This Creature”: 40 Years of Margery Kempe

In the mid-1970s, casting about for a dissertation topic, I stumbled over Margery Kempe. In those days you had to Continue reading →

Mockingbird Years

Ever since Feb 3rd the media – old-fashioned evening news and Twitterverse alike – has been bubbling with comment and Continue reading →