I started to create a video documentary of sorts interviewing women around the world asking them why they were choosing to marry later and have children later — and I only got so far as a few furniture makers in Italy during the 2007 Salone del Mobile but their English was so rudimentary that it [...]
Posts Tagged ‘family’
No Child
Posted in -Chauncey Zalkin, Contributors, tagged babies, baby, being a mom, child, childless, children, custody, dad, dads, daughter, family, father, fatherhood, fathers, feminism, first wave feminism, parenthood, son, woman, women on August 20, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Solo Travel and The Adventures of…
Posted in -Rebekka Lien, Contributors, tagged asian, backpacking, camping, central park, family, fear, germany, girl, girlonthestreet, hamburg, japan, lien, metropolitan museum of art, myth, new york, rebekka, solo, Tokyo, travel, washington DC, young, youth on May 30, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Growing up in a non-traditional Asian family, I have always loved travel. My mother lived in Hamburg, Germany for 13 years. During that time she backpacked all over Europe, most of the time solo. When she got married, she and my father often went camping together, packing tents sometimes in sub zero [...]
Hero
Posted in -Alabama Chanin, Contributors, tagged - Natalie Chanin, -Alabama Chanin, activist, alice waters, alternative, america, american, art, children, color purple, community, country, craft, design, education, entrepreneur, entrepreneurship, fabric, family, fashion, female, food, garden, health, hero, heroes, leader, mentor, montessori, mother, progressive, progressive education, project alabama, sewing, south, sustainability, textiles, woman, women on April 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Chauncey was diligent in asking me to post. She just didn’t give up. I almost dreaded when her next email would come as I really did not know what I wanted to say with my “personal” voice. It seems that my “Alabama Chanin” voice has become my personal voice or, perhaps, that [...]
