One hundred years since women won the right to vote. One hundred days until the election. One hundred women with one hundred stories.
Happy World Honey Bee Day! The buzz is that more than one-third of the world’s fruits, vegetables and flowers are dependent on bees – and they are disappearing. It’s the mission of one of the world’s most preeminent experts, entomologist Dr. Marla Spivak to change that. A chance encounter with …
Labor and civil rights leader Dolores Clara Huerta has always been a force. She spoke of farm workers as essential workers decades before the term became part of the our daily vocabulary. Her rallying cry, “¡Sí se puede!” (Yes, we can!) has inspired more than one movement — maybe even …
“All we wanted was to be stewards of this house,” Laura Luce says, looking out to the sunken back yard of her historic David Adler home in Lake Forest, Illinois. A careful restoration that respects the famed architect’s vision while at the same time creating a welcoming place to call …
Her name means Lotus in Sanskrit. Former Attorney General Jeff Sessions said her questioning “makes me nervous”. She made a YouTube video to teach Senator Mark Warner how to make a decent tuna melt. And yesterday California Senator Kamala Harris made history as the first Black woman and first woman …
Is it possible to create an image of something that by definition is impossible to see? That was the question computer scientist Katie Bouman set out to answer five years ago as a lead member of the Event Horizon Telescope, an international collaboration between astronomers, engineers, physicists and mathematicians tasked …
Most people know Ann Patchett for her fourth book, Bel Canto, an award-winning novel about a hostage situation at a presidential palace in Latin America. What no one knows about Ann Patchett, aside from me, is that she’s my literary crush. A graduate of Sarah Lawrence College and the Iowa …
As anyone who’s ever spent time in a grandmother’s kitchen knows, the best recipes aren’t written down. A pinch of this, a splash of that, butter the size of a walnut — these are the mysteries of holiday must-haves, the secrets to family recipes passed down to the daughters and …
Leave it to a woman to help people see clearly. Inspiration struck Alabama native Mary Anderson on a visit to New York City in 1902. Traveling through the wet, snowy city by streetcar, she noticed how often the driver stopped, got out, and cleared the windshield so he could see …
Lynda Barry is a cartoonist, author, graphic novelist, educator and recent MacArthur Foundation Fellow (known as the “genius” grants). And to my 11 and 13-year-old boys she was an inspiration. More about that later. Growing up in a racially mixed, working-class Seattle neighborhood, Barry began drawing comics at an early …
It’s not just the people who give the Chicago Pedway its neighborhood feel. Like any stretch of the city, the Pedway has its own rhythms — when it’s busiest; the good places to eat; where to get a shoe repaired; even the best place for a quick hair cut and …