Taken at the Truman Presidential Library
FYI: My grandmother has this same exact table!
This summer, I am teaching a gender studies course for my discipline. At one point, there was some concern that the class wouldn’t make: I didn’t have the required 10 students and decision time was upon our dean. Fortunately, I ended up with [...]
Archive for July, 2007
Teaching, Gender, and the Biological Imperative
Posted in Feminism, The Professoriate, tagged Family, Feminism, Gender, Teaching on July 31, 2007 | 1 Comment »
No Heaven. No Hell. Just Science.
Posted in Politics, Travel, Wat Stom!, tagged Cincinnati, Ohio, Politics, Religion, Travel on July 14, 2007 | 2 Comments »
It’s been a while since I visited the Creation Museum outside of Cincinnati, but I wanted to write about it in my blog. I’ve been annoyed about the museum ever since I went there. Now, granted, I may not be the most unbiased judge of the value of this museum. According to the film that [...]
Close Encounters of the Tram Kind
Posted in Missouri, Travel, tagged Missouri, St. Louis, Travel on July 13, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Hey, this might actually be my last vacation blog entry! Holy crap! That means I actually have to work today. Can I start crying now? Anyways, as you can probably tell, this is a picture from the top of the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial, a.k.a. the Arch. The Coach and I had been [...]
Give ‘Em Hell Harry!
Posted in Missouri, Politics, Travel, tagged Kansas City, Missouri, Politics, Travel on July 11, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
No, not Harry Potter!
Okay, I know I’m back from vacation and all, but I still have three more blog entries to post about my trip! What can I say? I’m just trying to extend the good vibes that come along with a vacation. By about the third day — the day we headed to Kansas [...]
Things I Didn’t Expect to Learn on Vacation
Posted in Travel, tagged Kansas City, Missouri, Religion, Travel on July 10, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Can you identify this church?
Okay, I am a weird, weird tourist. While I’m not a big fan of religion, I am always amazed when I run across “world headquarters” in unexpected places. When I was a kid, for instance, my school bus went by the headquarters for EWTN (i.e., Mother Angelica Land) every day. Later, [...]
Gas, Food, and Lodging
Posted in The Foodie Files, Travel, rants, tagged Foodie Files, Kansas City, Missouri, St. Louis, Travel on July 10, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The Golden Ox, Downtown Kansas City
Birthplace of the Kansas City Strip
Well, it’s our last day of vacation and while I have drafts of many different blog entries (including Truman’s Library and The Arch), I have to bump my foodie entry forward. Originally, this was just a food entry, but after spending the night in the [...]
Not Tonight
Posted in Travel, tagged Cars, Missouri, St. Louis, Travel on July 9, 2007 | 2 Comments »
No blog entry tonight … we made it to the Arch, but had a little drama. Some bitch managed to rear-end us on the Interstate. The car was not damaged, but I have a horrible headache and the Coach’s bumper sticker is screwed up. Blah.
Prairie of Solitude
Posted in Kansas, Missouri, Politics, Travel, tagged Environmentalism, Evil Kitten, Kansas, Travel on July 9, 2007 | 1 Comment »
One of our last stops in Kansas was at the Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve outside of Strong City, Kansas. This was really the highlight of the trip for me. Wide open spaces, solitude, wildflowers, the wind in my hair, the last remnants of prairie spread before me. Romanticized vision? Sure. But, I can tell you [...]
O Pioneer Mothers
Posted in Feminism, Kansas, Travel, tagged Environmentalism, Evil Kitten, Kansas, Travel on July 8, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Madonna of the Trail, Council Grove, Kansas
When we set out on this vacation, our intentions were to visit a few political sites and maybe the Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve. It wasn’t until after we arrived in Kansas that I gave any thought to the westward migration … the Santa Fe Trail, the Oregon Trail, and [...]
The Perfect Museum for Political Science Junkies
Posted in Kansas, Politics, Travel, tagged Evil Kitten, Kansas, Politics, Travel on July 8, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Monroe School, Topeka, KS
Brown vs. Board of Education National Historic Site
Does segregation of children in public schools solely on the basis of race …
deprive children of the minority group of equal educational opportunities?
We believe it does … We conclude, that in the field of public education
the doctrine of ‘Separate but Equal’ has no place.
Separate educational [...]
