MaryAlice Musings and More

The last two mornings I have woken up to a chorus, this is even without an open window. Birds in my neighborhood are happy. It is warmer, it is lighter (even on our cloudy days), and I am imagining the birds are listening to that deep wakening that is occurring under the remaining snow. So fun! I am liking the tunes!

Myah, age nine, a member of the Stillwater Ponies U-10 B-Black girls hockey team skated to a 1-0 Victory at the National Sports Center! It was great fun driving up to the Schwann's (yes the ice cream delivery folks!) Super Rink - it was super! Myah has improved a lot this year, she's having a little trouble sorting out how to skate with her new 2+ inch recent growth spurt, but she was a great defense person last night. All the girls were great, it was a really good game, and they skated and skated and skated. The olympic rink looks really big with girls under ten years of age on it! A lot of ice, I kept saying to Myah's Dad. Sitting with my daughter, son-in-spirit at the game, reminded me of bringing both of them as high school students to the WCHA playoffs. Here we are watching granddaughter Myah skate. Progress for girls, benefit for all! Well done Ponies!

March 8th. What effects one woman effects all women. In 1910 a second International Conference of Working Women was held in Copenhagen. A woman named Clara Zetkin (Leader of the 'Women's Office' for the Social Democratic Party in Germany) tabled the idea of an International Women's Day. She proposed that every year in every country there should be a celebration on the same day - a Women's Day - to press for their demands. The conference of over 100 women from 17 countries, representing unions, socialist parties, working women's clubs, and including the first three women elected to the Finnish parliament, greeted Zetkin's suggestion with unanimous approval and thus International Women's Day was the result. The very first International Women's Day was launched the following year by Clara Zetkin on 19 March (not 8 March). The date was chosen because on 19 March in the year of the 1848 revolution, the Prussian king recognized for the first time the s...

Rooting for Meryl Streep - Julia would be proud~This is the first year, that I have seen only one of the best picture nominees - Avatar - and I didn't get why it is such a blockbuster. I have Julia and Julia on CD at home, so that will be the second, and after tonight... I'll have some idea about #3!

Off to Roller Derby tonight. I remember as a very little girl watching on the black and white TV in our upper flat in DeKalb, Illinois the Roller Derby. Those women seemed just wild to me, off limit but intriguing. I love that a new generation of very amazing women are making roller skating bouts theirs. One of teams in the bout tonight is Garda Belts - here is a look at the women who will be skating tonight. If only my Mom could be with me tonight - she would love it, or it might just push her over the edge. She was a really good skater, I'll be thinking of her, remembering my first roller derby tv shows, and having some good Saturday night fun. ALISIN CHAINS ANGELFIRE BLOCKER / JAMMER ANITA SPANKSTON BLOCKER / JAMMER / PIVOT ANN E. BRIATED BLOCKER / PIVOT Inactive CASSIE ROLLE BLOCKER / JAMMER CITIZEN PAIN BLOCKER / PIVOT Co-Captain CUPCAKE BLOCKER / PIVOT Inactive DAMNZELSLY BLOCKER DEMORA LIZA BLOCKER / JAMMER / PIVOT DIEANN ISIS BLOCKER / JAMMER HANNA BELLE LECTOR BLOCK...