Katherine's Book Backyard

My first encounter with Shakespeare's play Julius Caesa r was watching the star-studded 1953 film in my 9th grade English class. James...

I was born for a storm and calm does not suit me --Andrew Jackson We're hearing a lot about Andrew Jackson these days as the ...

The phrase "rape culture" has recently resurfaced in American discourse--fueled by the charges against predators as diverse as B...

I have a friend who was interned in a camp during the war. She was a child but she still remembers it vividly. She has told me a little bi...

I've voted for candidates who've lost elections before--John Kerry, for example. I've voted for candidates who won the popular v...

"What can be causing Trumpism? We ask, and seek for an earthquake, or at least a historical oddity or a series of highly specific caus...

I'm short. At five foot one, I'm four inches shorter than the average American woman. I'm even short by worldwide standards, unl...

I've worked in a sexist business since I was in my 30s. If I blushed every time a man used the C word or the P word around me, I'd...

I was reading the Dallas Morning News's lukewarm endorsement of Hillary Clinton this morning--they were much more impassioned in thei...

THIS IS WHAT MY WORLD LOOKS LIKE WHEN I THINK OF DONALD TRUMP BECOMING PRESIDENT. I don't often get political. It says right on my...