The story of Mary Ann Brown Patten, the first woman to captain an American merchant ship, leaves me in awe.Read More

Watching high school students deploy their skills, I got a glimpse into the futureRead More

Nine recent books to help you celebrate women's history monthRead More

Women in the trades, where PPE is mandatory, assert themselves with personal styleRead More

Plunging into a compelling topic, even one with a tangential relationship to my current book project, is one of the pleasures of writing.Read More

I'm delighted to share Patricia Meisol's guest post about Dr. Helen Taussig, a pioneering physician and the subject of Patricia's biography, A Heart Afire.Read More

With Women's History Month approaching, I took the opportunity to do a little research on how the field of women's history began.Read More

It was fun to discover a convergence of two diametrically opposed characters that brought together two independent strands of my writing.Read More

While looking at the Sargent paintings now on view at the MFA, I entertained a dual fantasy.Read More

Captain Deborah Dempsey's most telling comment was: "It's fun to be the boss."Read More