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Smart Bitches has a new feature ... Locally Sourced Romance to spotlight book stores which support the romance community. My nomination is this week's feature ... Books with a Past at this link. Learn how the military feed my romance habit; comments appreciated.
March is Women's History Month at this link. Limecello at Tart Sweet called for guest posts ... and mine is published at this link. Learn more about Jackie Cochran, military aviation trailblazer, and Merline Lovelace, Air Force veteran turned Harlequin romance author, at the link; comments appreciated.
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Speaking of Merline, she is the guest speaker at the SOS America Military Tribute at the Dallas Hyatt Regency:
Wake Up with the Warriors, May 14, 2015, 830 am - 945 am:
Join Kathryn Falk, Lady of Barrow, in saluting our military heroes and their families. Readers will "deploy" to a military location (themed table) hosted by authors connected to the military, including Heather Ashby, Elizabeth Boyle, Beth Ciotta, Chanel Cleeton, Emmy Curtis, Delilah Devlin, Elizabeth Essex, Lea Griffith, Sharon Hamilton, Elle James, Sabrina Jeffries, Cat Johnson, Kennedy Layne, Ophelia London, Siera London, Merline Lovelace, Sally MacKenzie, Crista McHugh, Lindsay McKenna, Angel Payne, Ella Quinn, Elle J. Rossi, Susan Stoker, Paige Tyler, Julie Ann Walker, and Kimberly Rocha/Book Obsessed Chicks. Plus an Aussie Table with Megan Bamford and a Canadian Table with Julie Rowe to appreciate our Allies!
Your mission includes tasting MREs, navigating the coin challenge, and singing the services' songs - The Army Goes Rolling Along", "Wild Blue Yonder", "Anchors Aweigh", "The Halls of Montezuma", and "Semper Paratus".
This event is open to romance readers and military families in the Dallas area. Sign up for tickets at this link. I will also have tickets available at the SOS America Promo Table in Club RT on Wednesday, May 13.
Contact Kim Lowe, sos.aloha@yahoo.com, to host a table or donate door prizes.
Thanks to Heather Ashby, Diana Cosby, Anne Elizabeth, Gail Hart, Lorraine Heath, Elizabeth Langston, Julie Rowe, and Susan Ann Wall for donating door prizes.
What woman in history do you admire? I admire Rear Admiral Grace Hopper (above), a trailblazer in computer science. One randomly selected commenter wins a book choice from my convention stash. Comments are open through Saturday, March 7, 10 pm in Baltimore. I'll post the winner on Sunday, March 8.
Mahalo,
Kim in Baltimore
Aloha Spirit in Charm City
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Hoo-Rah, Grace Hopper!!!!!
ReplyDeleteHave read about both Jackie Cochran and Rear Admiral Grace Hopper. Accomplished and admirable women.
ReplyDeleteI like the women in history and in the military who will never get the recognition they deserve. They are the women who stay at home, take care of the family, home, and often hold a job. They were the women who crossed the ocean to an unknown land and an unknown future. The women who followed their men across the prairie, dug a life out of the land and ran things while the men went off to fight/ mine gold/look for work, and sometimes didn't come back. The women who serve in the military on call to deploy at a moments notice or separated from their families serving at remote locations or on board ship.
've long admired Admiral Hopper too - I first learned about her when I was learning COBOL the computer language she created. It made sense that a woman was involved in it's creation - it reads like English, not gibberish code!
ReplyDeleteI remember a movie about the women pilots who ferried airplanes around during WWII - can't remember what it was called or who was in it, but thought it was a fabulous story that needed to be shared.
Also the women who worked at Blenheim in England during WWII who were instrumental in breaking the Germans codes.
Thank you to all the women across the globe that continue to shatter glass ceilings and stereotypes. Happy Women's History month.
ReplyDeleteI love it when women are highlighted for their achievements. So many in the sciences that rarely get acknowledged.
ReplyDeleteMy now deceased next door neighbor, Hazel Putnam Jones. She served in the Army as a nurse in Europe. Came home and continued her career as a RN and had a lovely family of 4 boys and one girl. Not flashy or fancy, but quietly served her country.
ReplyDeleteI know MArie Curie is not military but I really admire her
ReplyDeleteMy friend Livia! She went in right out of high school in the 60's,
ReplyDeleteI am so honored to be involved in this event this year! I admire every one of the ladies involved here... and every woman in the military!
ReplyDeleteFlorence Nightingale and Marie Curie. I also admire you, too Kim, for your military service.
ReplyDeleteLucretia Mott
ReplyDeleteI cannot think of a woman that I admire connected to the army. But I adore Jane Austen... Does that count?
ReplyDeleteI loved the mention of Grace Hopper. I was a COBOL Programmer back before I starting writing for a living. She's amazin!
ReplyDeleteI love Adm. Hopper. Wasn't she the one who coined the phrase, sometimes it's better to ask forgiveness than get permission?
ReplyDeleteI'm going with all the women that never get recognition - the single moms, the women making less than livable wages, the women that get up every day and do what they can with what they have and thinking of others first - their children, their families, even strangers.
ReplyDeletetoo many to name
ReplyDeleteFlorence Nightingale an inspiration to all nurses, I know she was to my daughter who is now a nurse. A salute to all women in the services, you are all so brave.
ReplyDeleteLaura Bush - she is very good on promoting literacy for children.
ReplyDeleteAdmiral Hopper was amazing as are all the women through history who have served in the military in any capacity. My daughter and I toured the Nimitz Museum recently and there are a large number of women included in the memorial plaza. So many more have served with no memorial.
ReplyDeleteIt's so hard to name one when I'm not good at history! All that have been suggested are excellent choices.
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