Bubbe Wisdom - Unraveling the threads of life. A blog by Louise Silk.
Women’s Equality To Be Continued by LouiseSilkThe book I am currently reading is One Woman’s Army by the commanding general of Abu Ghraib, Janis Karpinski. In the aftermath of the torture scandal, Karpinski gracefully and courageousl...
Biking by LouiseSilkThis morning we celebrated Labor Day with a bike ride on the newly opened section of the Great Alleghany Passage Bike Trail going from Homestead to McKeesport and back. The trail goes along...
Issac Brings Back Memories by LouiseSilkOn 12/29/06 while staying at St. Mary of the Angels Parish School in New Orleans’s flood-devastated lower Ninth Ward, Louise Silk wrote: I'm waiting for Steve to return from gutting. Th...
Life and Death Go On by LouiseSilkWhile I was away having a wonderful vacation on the shores of Torch Lake, MI: 2 dead, 9 wounded at the Empire State Building Samsung guilty of infringing on Apple’s patents Over...
It’s An Inside Job by LouiseSilkI’m off to spend the week on a vacation in upper Michigan with my children and grandchildren. It will be a good time to step back and simply enjoy being together as a family. There was an ed...
It’s Going To Take More Than Vaginas To Change The Republicans! by LouiseSilkIn June, during a debate over one of the most restrictive anti-choice bills, Michigan State Representative, Lisa Brown , read a letter from a voter that concluded: “Finally Mr. Speaker, I'm fla...
A Century With Julia Childs by LouiseSilkIn the seventies when I was a young very inexperienced Home Economics teacher, I got all of my food knowledge from watching Julia Childs on public television. She was my teacher. I learne...
The Statistics of Paul Ryan by LouiseSilkWanting to find out more about Paul Ryan, lead me to an interesting article in the NYTimes by Nate Silver that explains that there is only a 4 in 100 chance of Paul Ryan being our president. ...
The Dark Side of Cloud by LouiseSilkThis will be the first year my FiberArts class at Carlow is totally paperless. That means everything- evaluations will be submitted online through Blackboard; patterns will be taken from fiber sit...