Women's History Month ~ and waffles this week

March is Women's History Month.  The theme for 2023 is "Celebrating Women Who Tell Our Stories."  Who are some authors we could include?  I looked to see what's on my TBR stack (to-be-read books) and see that I have Nine Women by Judith Nies right here beside me.  So I picked it up to read this month.

Nine Women: Portraits from the American Radical Tradition ~ by Judith Nies, 1977, 2002, biography, xxii + 342 pages

In an expanded edition of her history of American women activists, Judith Nies has added biographical essays on feminist Bella Abzug and civil rights visionary Fannie Lou Hamer and a new chapter on women environmental activists.  Included are portraits of Sarah Moore Grimké, who rejected her life as a Southern aristocrat and slaveholder to promote women's rights and the abolition of slavery; Harriet Tubman, an escaped slave who led more than three hundred slaves to freedom on the Underground Railway; Elizabeth Cady Stanton, the first woman to run for Congress, who advocated for women's rights to own property, to vote, and to divorce; Mother Jones, "the Joan of Arc of the coalfields," one of the most inspiring voices of the American labor movement; Charlotte Perkins Gilman, who worked for the reform of two of America's most cherished institutions, the home and motherhood; Anna Louise Strong, an intrepid journalist who covered revolutions in Russia and China; and Dorothy Day, cofounder of the Catholic Worker movement, who fed and sheltered the hungry and homeless in New York's Bowery for more than forty years.

Waffle Wednesday returns this week to the Circle@Crown Café, served from 8:00 a.m. until closing at 2:00 p.m.  I've also marked my calendar for 3/22/23, when they plan to do it again.  I plan to be there both times!

Words

due dil·i·gence / noun (Law) = reasonable steps taken by a person in order to satisfy a legal requirement, especially in buying or selling something.  It also means "a comprehensive appraisal of a business undertaken by a prospective buyer, especially to establish its assets and liabilities and evaluate its commercial potential."

I like the wording I found in that illustration above:  "An investigation, audit, or review performed to confirm facts or details of a matter under consideration.

I have been investigating DNR, which means "Do Not Resuscitate."  In other words, I've done my "due diligence" to understand what it means, and I choose DNR.  If I'm gone, don't bring me back — not even if the doctor decides I could probably live a little longer.  I see no need to fight off the inevitable.  Lest you think there's something wrong, nope!  I'm doing just fine, thank you.  At my last regular exam, the doctor questioned DNR on my chart.  That's why it's on my mind.

Deb Nance at Readerbuzz

hosts The Sunday Salon.