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Thanks. Though, just to be clear, Ethel is the daughter and Lee and Arthur are her parents. Some of the other immediate relatives have been mentioned, but they haven't really shown up yet. But some of them will.
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Again, actually, she was following women in the United States who'd been working for equality since the country was established. But the economy went through several stages, one being -- as I've mentioned here before -- when women no longer had to work in the fields and in the family businesses and were rewarded by being able to stay home and focus on raising the their children. And not that that isn't a challenge, but they wanted more than that, including the right to vote. That brings us to this story in the mid-1920s.
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When Papa suggested I become a stenographer, at least he was admitting I was too young to be married. That was one of his arguments against my graduating from high school early. But just because he knew what he wanted to do at fourteen didn’t mean he ever asked me. And he never thought that I’d want to go to college, let alone law school. Other people in our family had finished high school and gone further. Papa’s just younger sister, Alberta, had gone to Hunter College for two year
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February CSR Discussion Day: Crisscross Moon by Rich Eisbrouch
RichEisbrouch commented on Cia's blog entry in Gay Authors News
Also, thank you jt15136, Jaro_423 and PBax. I'm just seeing the third commented now, and I was reminded of the others from soon after I serialized the book. It's always good to have support and some reactions and insights to a story. -
February CSR Discussion Day: Crisscross Moon by Rich Eisbrouch
RichEisbrouch commented on Cia's blog entry in Gay Authors News
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Well, this was a long time ago in a distant city. But things had already been changing. Interestingly, as I'm sure you know, there was more equality when people were just getting by. The more we succeeded, the more balance receded, at first as a kind of reward: women no longer had to work in the fields; they could stay more comfortably at home and concentrate on their families. Then that became a trap. Still, it was often a genteel trap, with servants.
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Papa never wanted me to go to college, let alone law school, and Mama didn’t see much use for that kind of studying, either. They’d each only gone through eighth grade, when that’s all that was required, “And we’re doing fine,” they pointed out. Mama added that people could learn as much outside a classroom by all the things they saw and read. “And did,” Papa added. “Like my going out west as an advance man.” I knew they were right because Mama and Aunt Ella, and someti
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Not really. American women had been lawyers by the mid-1800s, mostly training by apprenticeship, and the first American woman to graduate from a law school was in 1870. Passing the bar exam is trickier because it was first given by each state, and even when the exam became national, there are conflicting dates because while it existed by 1884-85, it wasn't required until the early 1920s. and prestigious American law schools lagged behind about accepting women. But the first woman to pass a state's bar exam -- Iowa's -- was in 1869.
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My father, when he was young, traveling out west with the circus, and still courting my mother here in New York, used to sign his postcards, “Yours, full of fun.” But just now, Papa was not being full of fun. There were a couple of reasons, though one he should have been happy about was that I’d just graduated from Barnard. I did it in only three years, too, though admittedly not with the highest grades, just a low cum laude. I might have done better, he pointed out, if I’d taken th
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593 Riverside Drive is a kind of drawing room comedy about the difficulty a woman living on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in 1925 has in getting a divorce and the narrow-mindedness of one of the male lawyers in the subsequent trial. Still, there's a lot of humor in the rudeness, especially when Uncle Herbert's around. The book will serialize on Fridays, probably through November -- WELL, THAT HIT A MAJOR SETBACK WHEN I HAD A TRULY UNEXPECTED STROKE ON OCTOBER 2ND. NOW, I'M HOPING TO FINISH EDITING AND POSTING BY THE END OF FEBRUARY 2024.
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It took another four days. Friday morning, there was a phone call around ten, and a hour later, Jess Timmons was sitting in one of the small conference rooms with Elena and Don. Her first question on the phone was also, “Do you want to arrest me?” and after they assured her “No,” Elena added, “But we would like to talk.” Jess Timmons didn’t even ask if they’d come to Montague, which they would have, to give her privacy. Instead, she drove to Waldron.” “I’m really sorry,
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Thanks. I need to go back and be kinder to Fluff. I didn't know as much about dogs as I do now, and every time she escaped and did minor damage in doing so, she was just trying to be with us. I'd never leave her in those situations now. But she did have adventures.
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Thanks. One of my favorite, still fairly natural places.
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The older story may be a bit harder to follow because it's not in dialogue: I couldn't create a believable English version of the older language, so I simply narrated. Also, there's no humor in the older story which, to me, makes the characters a bit less dimensional. And, yeah, there's plenty of my writing on this site for you to explore. Hope you have fun, Meanwhile, thanks for reading, and thanks again to Cia for letting people know about this book.
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February CSR Feature: CrissCross Moon by RichEisbrouch
RichEisbrouch commented on Cia's blog entry in Gay Authors News
Cia, Thanks for this mention. This is great. I hope the book makes some other people smile. Rich -
Well, as Kipling kind of put it, "The dawn may come up like thunder."
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“So there you have it,” Don began Monday’s lunch meeting. “It’s a theory. It doesn’t make sense. And we have nothing to back it up. But it’s what we keep coming back to.” “I keep coming back to the twenty-thousand dollars,” Elena had to admit. “As I told Eliot Felton, I had no idea you could make that much playing local Poker.” “And after expenses,” Don added. “He wasn’t exaggerating?” Jae asked. “Why would he?” Ike countered. Jae
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Yup, that's the obvious question that the lawyers seem to be brushing past in their efforts to protect their clients..
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Oh, I think the police considered how the Waldron townspeople felt at one point, Unfortunately, they just didn't still feel that way after the move was made.
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Well, since it's the people who live in Waldron who are disappointed by the move, it shouldn't be hard to gently point out that they're the reason the department is trying to move back. Though it was years of diplomatic pushing by the police to replace its aging headquarters, and the new station is really nice. It's just in a place other people suddenly find inconvenient.
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There's an element of cheer in Waldron.
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Yep, it's always nice when people remember how much they like their neighbors and their community.
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Yeah, Eliot and his cousin Ronnie surprised me a bit. And Eliot just wouldn't stop talking.
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“The thing is,” Eliot Felton began, “I inherited this house from my Aunt Maura. I know, looking around, that seems pretty good, but it didn’t look like this when I got it. In fact, the only reason I got it at eighteen is no one else in our family wanted it – and we have a very large family.” “A fixer-upper,” Don commented. He and Elena were sitting in Eliot Felton’s living room, being crawled over by his two young kids. He’d already explained that his wife was at work.
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For the next few days, Elena and Don mainly ignored the situation. Following what Kye Cooper’s doctors advised, they still couldn’t talk with him or his parents, though they occasionally looked at information about Jess Timmons that needed to be verified, updated, or explored. Plus, they checked to see if she’d used her cell phone or credit and ATM cards. They also drove past the house she shared with Mira Banerjee in Montague and by the closed, two-car garage off their rear alley.
