Powerful Words: Questions to Consider by Linda Perlman Fields Although I am of the mind that censorship is wrong, there are times when ‘wrong’ doesn’t work, such as in the case of hate speech. But if I were to say how I feel about books being rewritten to make them more in line with modern … Read More
What is the “Women’s” Vote? by Suzanne Braun Levine For 72 years women marched and rallied and got arrested to win the vote. Throughout the campaign, one of the most persistent arguments against women’s suffrage was the assumption that female votes wouldn’t make any difference anyway, since women would vote for whomever their husbands or … Read More
Pandemics and Speculative Fiction Lillian Longendorfer Epidemics and pandemics have challenged medical science and influenced the course of history. Apocalyptic plagues have also been recurrent themes in science fiction. As a doctor and also a science fiction writer, I have been watching the Covid-19 pandemic with a double perspective. The decline of the Byzantine Empire … Read More
Kids Love to Read, Too by Michelle Oram From a very young age, I knew I was different. I listened to the music of Nature, sang with birds, danced with the wind, sat quietly and dreamt with the Moon. Some kids would bully and make fun of me, which only forced me to not be … Read More
Our Words Matter by Amy Ferris This is the third year in a row that Milford Readers & Writers is hosting a Women’s panel. I am so delighted. I am delighted for many reasons, the main one being that women’s voices are a deep passion of mine. You can almost call it an obsession. Women writing/righting their lives, I … Read More
by Lucian Truscott IV It was November of 2003. This country had invaded Iraq seven months previously, and I was sent over to “cover” the “war” by Harper’s Magazine and the New York Times. I flew into Kuwait on British Airways and caught a flight on an Air Force C-130 to BIAP, Baghdad International Airport, … Read More