From Kathleen Danzey Foot
Last week, I went to a benefit for the kidney foundation of northern ca. This is a great event that features authors who sign books and speak at the luncheon. Michael Krassney of NPR moderated. Among the authors were E.L.Doctorow, Tracy Kidder and Gail Collins. Collins, the first woman on the editorial board of the NY Times and has written a lot of populist history, the most recent being a book on women who grew up in the 60′s and 70′s. I never considered myself an historical icon, but I was jolted into the reality of being living history when she spoke about women wearing pants and when they were allowed to do this in public. I would suspect, ours was one of the first classes for women to not only be accepted into the “working world” no matter how hard we had to work to achieve that, but also one of the first generations of women since WWII where the middle class really had to work. Anybody out there who has a stay at home wife of long standing?? I would have chafed at the thought of staying home. On the other hand, I never saw my kids take their first steps or hear their first words. I rather envy women today who can take a few months off and whose spouses can do the same. Our generation is kind of weird, but I think we pushed the boundaries of acceptable behavior, and opened the world to greater diversity, although no one could ever accuse us of being a diverse class in any way. I think you’re a great webmaster as long as you wish to continue. Kathleen