Ten great posts from 10 new (to me) women bloggers. It is here every Friday (more or less – occasionally it is Saturday or Sunday).<\/p>\n
Starting off in a timely fashion, Lisa Tolliver in On Air and On Line, explains why May 5 is important to Mexicans and southern USasians<\/a>, and also for marketers looking for a bonza bonanza. Monday was a more recent military anniversary, the third of President Bush’s “triumphant” arrival in the role of fighter pilot. The Catherine Chronicles sets out the damage since then<\/a>.<\/p>\n Also keeping in time, on EC1 Cruise Control, Lady M comes out about her emotional reaction to protest marches<\/a>. (For those puzzled by the name, EC1 is the postcard of a trendy but now expensive area of London – Clerkenwell – known as a “media village”. I used to live there.)<\/p>\n Staying in the British capital, but heading for the more light-hearted side, Pashmina on Grammar Puss lives up to her blogs name by deconstructing a shopkeeper’s sign<\/a>. I suspect, however, that the quote marks might be a nod to Trading Standards, rather than irony.<\/p>\n Standards of grammar are also the concern of Teresa on Making Light. She’s assembled, with the help of her readers, a wonderful collection of phonetic near-misses<\/a>. I particularly liked “she balled her eyes out”. Nalo Hopkinson is concerned, however, with broader questions on the structuring of a novel<\/a>.<\/p>\n Now I’m feeling very tired and rather flat today – the inevitable letdown after a physical and emotional challenge (yes I am talking about elections – that is what they are like from the inside), but I can only imagine that this is how the writer of Women’s Space\/The Margins, feels all the time, as, at the age of 54, sole supporter for five of her 11 children. She has set out what keeps me keeping on<\/a>. On Unsane and Safe, Jennifer Cascadia has a brilliant photo<\/a> that seems an apt pairing with that post.<\/p>\n Babylune, meanwhile, wonders how babies arrive at all, in a summary of the latest pieces of news about fertility, infertility and pollution<\/a>. Starting a little earlier in the lifecycle, on Overworked and Unlaid (which may not be safe for more conservative workplaces), Avatar sets out what you’d like your 15-year-old self to know<\/a>.<\/p>\n ***<\/p>\n