tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5990351249805345004.post6728017902717959336..comments2024-03-28T20:40:18.960-04:00Comments on The Misadventures of Widowhood: From Insects to ProhibitionMisadventures of Widowhoodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17262709452281226620noreply@blogger.comBlogger24125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5990351249805345004.post-10594093830360273062019-11-28T17:11:33.266-05:002019-11-28T17:11:33.266-05:00Frances Willard was another very dedicated woman w...Frances Willard was another very dedicated woman who history doesn't give enough time and attention to. She was so right in the way she framed temperance as a woman's issue. Misadventures of Widowhoodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17262709452281226620noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5990351249805345004.post-53797451683160047912019-11-28T16:38:12.386-05:002019-11-28T16:38:12.386-05:00I've long been fascinated by the connections b...I've long been fascinated by the connections between the Temperance movement and women's rights. Susan B. Anthony actually came to suffrage by way of temperance -- as did many other women. Frances Willard is a particularly fascinating character. She framed Temperance as a women's issue because women were abused both physically and financially by drunkard husbands. She then brought Jean P.http://stepintofuture.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5990351249805345004.post-79340491103281627162019-11-14T08:29:46.888-05:002019-11-14T08:29:46.888-05:00You haven't been reading me long enough to kno...You haven't been reading me long enough to know I often make up back stories for birds, insects and whatever else I see when I'm reaching to find something to write about. LOLMisadventures of Widowhoodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17262709452281226620noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5990351249805345004.post-38835293824893485542019-11-14T03:16:38.175-05:002019-11-14T03:16:38.175-05:00Making up Back Stories for Insects trapped inside ...Making up Back Stories for Insects trapped inside your screen could be Fun distraction from your intensity of The Purge I suspect? I don't know what unhealthy Coping Mechanisms and Skills I'll adopt while in the Process of this Move, but I'm sure there will be some?!Bohemianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03743017084098726581noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5990351249805345004.post-34198149566181910142019-11-09T09:01:04.944-05:002019-11-09T09:01:04.944-05:00The Temperance Union was quite militant and active...The Temperance Union was quite militant and active. If your great-great-grandmother came to one of your Cork Popper parties you would seen a lot of good wine go town the drain. LOL Misadventures of Widowhoodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17262709452281226620noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5990351249805345004.post-77888591483267480532019-11-09T08:52:50.716-05:002019-11-09T08:52:50.716-05:00Ugh. Hate it when I have your post up for a day or...Ugh. Hate it when I have your post up for a day or so and then comment and it dumps it! So, I'll try again! Only to say I really loved this post -- the history it imparts, your thoughts. I learned a lot about Susan B. A. here, too. I didn't realize the part about prohibition but I guess it made sense. I recently found a eulogy my dad wrote for his grandmother's service and it Jeaniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17482528482559445943noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5990351249805345004.post-88568610064832137252019-11-07T09:21:22.470-05:002019-11-07T09:21:22.470-05:00They were bootleggers and rumrunners? Wow.
My mom...They were bootleggers and rumrunners? Wow.<br /><br />My mom didn't live with her father after her mother died when she was nine but he turned into an alcoholic and she saw enough of his drinking and that of a brother-in-law to make her a teetotaler for life.<br /><br />You are right about backsliding. There are well-connected people out there that are trying to take hard-fought rights away Misadventures of Widowhoodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17262709452281226620noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5990351249805345004.post-17755068978843569132019-11-07T08:22:20.140-05:002019-11-07T08:22:20.140-05:00My father's family tells many stories about ho...My father's family tells many stories about how much money they made during prohibition by running liquor from Kentucky and Tennessee to the oilfields in Texas. Of course, they drank up all the profits as quickly as they made it. Living with alcoholics is a nightmare. Thank God there were courageous women willing to risk all for the vote. If we aren't very careful, we will slide backwardsPenelopehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01869670673483172196noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5990351249805345004.post-70024550788375722972019-11-06T18:23:32.836-05:002019-11-06T18:23:32.836-05:00I have scooped bugs up to put them outside but not...I have scooped bugs up to put them outside but not spiders. Spiders get killed except for Daddy-Long legs which a song or movie from my youth made me feel differently towards them. I wish I could remember which.Misadventures of Widowhoodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17262709452281226620noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5990351249805345004.post-56869679653535009572019-11-06T18:20:17.475-05:002019-11-06T18:20:17.475-05:00I just went to another lecture today about the Orp...I just went to another lecture today about the Orphan trains and it was mentioned about how alcohol contributed to so many homeless children. We live in an age when bartenders who cut you off at a certain point and laws against drunk drivers have saved a lot of people a lot of grief. Men could beat the crap out of wives and kids while in a drunken rage and there was nothing to help his victims.Misadventures of Widowhoodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17262709452281226620noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5990351249805345004.post-18159289230375019602019-11-06T17:16:36.112-05:002019-11-06T17:16:36.112-05:00I love that you create back stories for the insect...I love that you create back stories for the insects in your window screen. I hate to kill things too and often scoop up tiny little spiders that I find in my house and put them outside instead of squashing them. "Charlotte's Web" has had a big effect on me, I guess, since my teacher read it to us in the fifth grade. I still love it.TexasTrailerParkTrashhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02299289643138589897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5990351249805345004.post-62010442884484928432019-11-06T17:10:06.045-05:002019-11-06T17:10:06.045-05:00I love your attention to the details of bug life.....I love your attention to the details of bug life...."back stories for insects" cracked me up! You are so right about why women's issues included prohibition and went hand in hand. I used to think they must have been a bunch of stick in the muds before I woke up and realized they were trapped in marriages that included drunkenness and domestic violence with no way out. Prohibitingdonnajurenehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10799559087972759233noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5990351249805345004.post-60392595045928263132019-11-06T16:38:18.915-05:002019-11-06T16:38:18.915-05:00"Not me," I say as I raise my hand high ..."Not me," I say as I raise my hand high in the air.Misadventures of Widowhoodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17262709452281226620noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5990351249805345004.post-72031955364111318982019-11-06T15:44:14.685-05:002019-11-06T15:44:14.685-05:00I agree that it's important to have cues for o...I agree that it's important to have cues for our memories, especially when we are aging. Looking at touchstones helps us to recall things that we wouldn't otherwise think about in the day to day of life.<br /><br />And that's the thing: our lives settle so easily into dull routines! Without those little things here or there to cue up our memories, we'd lose the small pleasantriesNancehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17627214346956206283noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5990351249805345004.post-5531861886475106422019-11-06T13:06:21.370-05:002019-11-06T13:06:21.370-05:00Harriet Tubman's biography? I haven't read...Harriet Tubman's biography? I haven't read it but I have a collection of books written by the leaders of the womans suffrage movement (circa 1890-1910) and I'm hoping to hold on to those. They really were dedicated. Misadventures of Widowhoodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17262709452281226620noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5990351249805345004.post-89158053355890120662019-11-06T12:29:09.545-05:002019-11-06T12:29:09.545-05:00I recently watched Harriet and it was good. Now I...I recently watched Harriet and it was good. Now I need to read her biography. Remarkable what people can accomplish if they believe in something. <br /><br />I enjoy the back stories as much as the main story! There IS a story about everything.The Awkward Widowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03729456066739275695noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5990351249805345004.post-83380100764499993832019-11-06T12:15:47.200-05:002019-11-06T12:15:47.200-05:00For me the key to answering that question would be...For me the key to answering that question would be who your spouse was and how he felt about giving women the right to vote. It took many years to get the men on board and without male supporters we women would still be sitting out the elections. The courts had no sympathy for women whose husbands threw them out without their children or any kind of support.Misadventures of Widowhoodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17262709452281226620noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5990351249805345004.post-61485731743039689442019-11-06T11:29:55.422-05:002019-11-06T11:29:55.422-05:00I often wonder when I read of the Susan B Anthonys...I often wonder when I read of the Susan B Anthonys of the world just where I would have fallen in the movement. I'd like to think I'd have marched for suffrage but who knows? Anyway, thank God for her and her ilk. Arkansas Pattihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14156004753267665579noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5990351249805345004.post-78310649153912234942019-11-06T09:57:20.946-05:002019-11-06T09:57:20.946-05:00Behind every leader in a cause are a lot of people...Behind every leader in a cause are a lot of people like us doing the things you mentioned. We need to remember to be proud of that support.<br /><br />My best friend growing up used to have a grandfather living in the neighborhood and when we'd go over there after school he had such great stories attached to all his knickknacks. I didn't have grandparents so I credit him with me learning Misadventures of Widowhoodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17262709452281226620noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5990351249805345004.post-7400946415564668002019-11-06T09:46:50.427-05:002019-11-06T09:46:50.427-05:00When you think about it, it makes perfect sense th...When you think about it, it makes perfect sense that voting and anti-drinking were tied together for women who fought to change the laws. There were no laws to protect them from abusive and/or drunk husbands. Back before women could vote they couldn't have their own bank accounts or own property to get away from bad marriages. But there also were plenty of men in the anti-saloon leagues and Misadventures of Widowhoodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17262709452281226620noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5990351249805345004.post-7936500691793412812019-11-06T09:34:50.031-05:002019-11-06T09:34:50.031-05:00Minimalists who look down on collectors bothers me...Minimalists who look down on collectors bothers me too. It's not like saving 75 to 100 old things is going to save the earth. That stuff is already here. Using it for home decor instead of buying new stuff actually is a form of recycling. Minimalists also didn't grow up with depression era parents who influenced us hold on to stuff that is still useful. That mindset is not that easy to Misadventures of Widowhoodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17262709452281226620noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5990351249805345004.post-28128260392908314192019-11-06T09:17:45.445-05:002019-11-06T09:17:45.445-05:00I love the second to last paragraph. I am at the ...I love the second to last paragraph. I am at the water boy stage of my life, I guess, though I do write emails, sign petitions, and occasionally get out the markers to make a sign and walk in a march here and there. I agree that our collections are the holders of memories and stories. That’s why I never mind dusting them — my keepsakes are memory joggers and I love those memories! Cynthiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16035113274497372396noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5990351249805345004.post-61562376925864740842019-11-06T09:09:37.582-05:002019-11-06T09:09:37.582-05:00I did not know that about Susan B.Anthony and her ...I did not know that about Susan B.Anthony and her prohibition work. Why did all these people think drinking was so bad? I think I need to go back into history and read this later today. As for your critters, you'll be gone won't you before their return? Into your new home? And it snowed there already? Oh boy.Margaret (Peggy or Peg too)https://www.blogger.com/profile/04247428494327269983noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5990351249805345004.post-17291511396655586872019-11-06T00:53:20.951-05:002019-11-06T00:53:20.951-05:00A nice explanation for non-collectors. I'm no...A nice explanation for non-collectors. I'm not a collector but it bothers me when minimalists get on their high horses and try to shame people who aren't like them. CheerfulMonkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00934008738777906970noreply@blogger.com