What I’m Reading – Captive Prince
The basic synopsis of the Captive Prince by C.S. Pacat is that Damianos (Damen) is the heir to the throne of Akeilos. His father dies and Damen’s half-brother Kastor captures him and sends him off to be a slave in Vere, telling everyone that the prince is dead so he can rule as King. Laurent […]
World Changing Women – Angela Davis
Angela Davis: Activist, Writer, Scholar, Bad Ass. At 73 she is still fighting the fight. While it’s a shame that these fights still need to be fought, it’s comforting to know that a veteran of these issues is there to lend a hand. Angela is an icon of social justice and activism. If you’re new […]
Travel Tuesdays! Lesser Slave Lake
Hey All, Today we are checking out Lesser Slave Lake in Alberta with my friend Lauren 🙂 Thanks for stopping by! -Erin
Favourite YouTuber Spotlight – Alex Boyé
Alex Boyé is fairly recent discovery for me, but I’m totally hooked. He brings an amazing Africanized twist to popular music and it just takes the music to a whole other level. He’s been involved in music since the 90’s and even performed alongside legends like George Michael. He was part of the boy band […]
World Changing Women – Mary McLeod Bethune
Mary McLeod Bethune was an education and Civil Rights activist in the early to mid 1900’s. Mary was born in 1875 in South Carolina, She grew up in poverty, one of seventeen children and was the only one of them to attend school. Absorbing what she learned at school she would try to teach her […]
Happy Valentine’s Day – World Changing Couples
This Valentine’s Day I’m straying away from the literary and plunging into history, choosing amazing, influential couples that changed the world. Love, in all it’s forms, is what the world needs most. I hope you enjoy these couples who challenged perceptions, challenged the status quo and forced the world to conform around their new age. […]
World Changing Women – Madam C.J. Walker
Madam C.J. Walker is notable as the first female self-made millionaire in America. She was born as Sarah Breedlove in Louisiana in 1867. Her family was enslaved, but Sarah was the first of their children born after the Emancipation Proclamation. She was orphaned by age 7 and moved to Mississippi to work as a domestic […]
World Changing Women – Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison is a Pulitzer Prize winning novelist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. She was born Chloe Ardelia Wofford in 1931 in Ohio, where her parents had fled to try and escape the racism of the south. Her name, Toni, comes from her baptismal name, which she […]
What I’m Reading – A Good Indian Wife
I’ve just finished reading A Good Indian Wife by Anne Cherian, a first generation Indian immigrant and author. The book was published in 2008 and follows the two main characters, Neel (Suneel) Sarath, an Indian born American doctor and Leila Krishnan, a local woman from his hometown who teaches English. I originally thought that the […]
World Changing Women – Shirley Chisholm
If the world had fully appreciated Shirley Chisholm in 1972 she could have been America’s first female President. Besides being the first black person to run for the Presidency for a major party, she was also the first woman to run for the Democrats presidential nomination. She was the first black woman elected to Congress […]