Amy Licence and I invite proposals for papers to be included in a multidisciplinary edited volume entitled Envisioning the Tudor Woman: Historical and Modern Representations of Women from the Tudor Era. Please submit a proposal before July 1 2015; the final deadline for complete essays will be December 1, 2015. Papers must be between 4000… Read more Submissions for Envisioning the Tudor Woman
My eldest daughter, Bubbles, will be entering the 5th grade this August and we have been reading up on social interaction and Asperger’s syndrome in preparation for preteen ‘drama’, conflict, or bullying. It has led me to some fascinating information. People with Asperger’s syndrome are typically very direct. We don’t do (or even know how… Read more Conflict Aversion, Assertion, Aggression and Asperger’s
Jesus wept. As I am sure most of you know, a 21 year old white man named Dylann Storm Roof attended a prayer service at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina and after an hour he started shooting members of the historically black church, killing nine of them. A survivor reported… Read more On Hate Crimes and Denial of Racism
*SPOILERS for Game of Thrones* Today is Henry Fitzroy’s birthday, and if he were alive he’d be 496 years young. Sadly, the king’s baseborn child with Bessie Blount passed away at the tender age of 17. Fitzroy was actually being eyed as a potential heir to the throne, illegitimate or not. Henry had recently declared… Read more Happy Birthday to Henry Fitzroy
A lady by the name of Della Curry was recently fired from her job kitchen manager at an Aurora, Colorado, elementary school. Why? She was giving hungry kids food instead of pitching it into the trash when the kids didn’t have the money to pay for it: “I was let go for not charging for… Read more Della Curry–A Good Human Being
I had this conversation with my 10 year old daughter the other day. Her: Mom, when will I be old enough to have a phone? Me: When you are 30. Her: Mooooooooommmmmm! Be serious! Me: How old do you think you should be? Her: *ponders* I think I should get a phone when I am… Read more Now, I feel old
A school in Bedford, KY recently had an employee do something incredibly heartless. Someone who works for Bedford Elementary School took away a students hot lunch and threw it in the trash in front of all her classmates because the little girl’s lunch account had insufficient funds. Bear in mind that the child was already… Read more Out of the Mouth of Babes
I published this last year, but it bears repeating. Her murder was one of the worst acts in Tudor history. On this day in 1541 the Countess of Salisbury, Lady Margaret Pole, was executed by order of Henry VIII. This was shocking, even for a populace who had become accustomed to the murder of famous… Read more Remembering Margaret Pole
*NB – this was supposed to go out yesterday but Fun With Kids happened instead* On the last week in May of 1553 Lady Jane Grey married Lord Guilford Dudley, the fourth son of the duke of Northumberland (John Dudley), at the urging of the increasingly ill King Edward VI. Contrary to myth, there is… Read more Lady Jane Grey Marries
Oh, what fun. I just found a “dubious”charge on my credit card and the phone number for the “merchant” listed goes straight to voice mail. My credit card company is handling it (Yay Team USAA!) and the charge is being removed, but my card has been shut down for security reasons and a NEW card… Read more My Credit Card Was Hacked