Poor Richard’s Women by Nancy Rubin Stuart
What a biography for Women’s History Month or any month of any year. Nancy Rubin Stuart gives a scholarly but intimate look into the life […]
Thoughts
ARTEIDOLIA just published my poem BACK THEN in collaboration with the artist Christine Stoddard
http://www.arteidolia.com/swifts-slows-rochelle-jewel-shapiro-christine-stoddard/
openartsforum has just posted my poem, Country Life, one of a series of poems I am working on to grieve for my husband
https://openartsforum.com/forum/threads/country-life.13045/
Had to share Caroline Leavitt’s article from AARP on the horros of gym class for boomers.
https://www.aarpethel.com/health/why-high-school-gym-made-me-hate-my-body?cmp=EMC-DSM-NLC-OTH-ETHEL-20220105_TheEthel_NL_CTRL_1305300_1593901-010522-F5-HowHighSchoolGymClassMadeMeHateMyBody_Health-CTA-CTRL-HealthHygiene-6052958&encparam=H6Xvvn8kIpa8IhSHPjd%2BwXVzJpUkKPQLe8yAn%2BNWN6U%3D&fbclid=IwAR0U6fc86ibOewUo77oTH5aOrN36nDAdT90Rvyy-nHkKSpJO4jNZlmUEBK0
When did I, at 74, become “so cute?”
I bridle at being called “so cute” and now I find other older people do too. Ditto for “young lady” and all that other blather. […]