Invisible Women
Sheila McKinnon lives in the most magical apartment in Rome; it is in fact the same abode where the iconic movie Roman Holiday was filmed. And perhaps because her digs have a view that seems to unfold an enchanted world, Sheila McKinnon is free to roam, photograph, and give voice to a cohort she has called Invisible Women.

Flights of Fancy
by Larry Tritten
I don’t remember how old I was when I learned the meaning of the word aviatrix, but as a kid I was aware of the existence of female pilots from an early age. In the comic books published by Fiction House from 1940-1953-54 there was a variety of distaff characters — aviatrixes, spies, nurses and miscellaneous adventuresses in Wings, Fight, and Rangers; Jumbo and Jungle featured jungle-goddess heroines like Sheena and Fantomah, Mystery Woman of the Jungle; and Planet had Gale Allen and the Girl Squadron (extramundane aviatrixes!), Mysta of the Moon, and Futura.

Open Sesame
By Wilson Sherwin
My mother infected me early on with a serious case of the “travel bug,” as she calls it.

Running With Gazelles
By Janis Turk
When middle-aged-crazy hit, I went alone to run with the bulls in Spain. Little did I know that such an adventure wasn’t going to be a final cure but, rather, the beginning of bold undertakings and an obsession with the chase of unadulterated joy. Five years later, with wanderlust still surging in me like hot flashes, I found myself in Morocco running with gazelles.

Senca Falls and All That
by Charles Degelman
The 2008 Presidential campaign is moving quickly into a second act. Characters, settings, and conflicts have all been introduced to an economically wary and war-weary audience.

The Courage of Her Convictions
by Victor M. Parachin
Conviction . . . is worthless till it convert itself into conduct.
That observation was made by the 19th-century political philosopher Thomas Carlyle. Here are three trailblazing women who had the courage of their convictions and, as a result, helped people gain a new vision for improving their world.

Potentia
By Amanda Jones
Afew years ago I began to imagine a coffee-table book that would also be a project and perhaps a movement dedicated to advancing the opportunities of women and young girls globally.

Harriet Bridgeman’s Museum Without Walls
By Jerry Tallmer
God made little apples, and followed that up with Paul Cezanne (1839-1906), who declared: “With an apple I will astonish Paris.” And followed that up with Harriet Bridgeman, creator of a no less astonishing archive — the London-based Bridgeman Art Library — in which Cezanne’s apples are kept company by 200,000 other images of paintings, sculpture, architecture, furniture, and what have you from 15,000 B.C. right up to now, all accessible on a single Website.

Editta Sherman Still snapping at 95...
By Rachel Bonham Carter
My grandmother would have turned 95 this year. I have a photograph taken nine years ago of the moment she held her first great-grandchild, my first nephew: the two softest faces I knew, cheek-to-cheek, paper-thin skin against brand new plumpness.

All Things great and small — and me
by Sarah Montague
“Here I stand at the crossroads of life” is what Anthony Newley crooned in Doctor Doolittle.