February 2012
18 posts
Gardening Women: Their Stories from 1600 to the...
Gardening Women: Their Stories from 1600 to the Present by Catherine Horwood
From Flora, Roman goddess of plants, to today’s gardeners at Kew, women have always gardened. Women gardeners have grown vegetables for their kitchens and herbs for their medicine cupboards. They have been footnotes in the horticultural annals for specimens collected abroad. They taught young women about gardening...
The San Francisco of Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo
The San Francisco of Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo: Place, Pilgrimage, and Commemoration Edited by Douglas A. Cunningham
Considered by many as one of the greatest films of all time, Vertigo regularly places near the top of critics’ lists, including the American Film Institute’s 100 Years, 100 Movies where it ranked in the top 10. In Sight and Sound magazine’s most recent...
Impostor Syndrome
Impostor Syndrome: The feeling of not deserving to be in the position you are, and of being afraid that advisors, instructors, or peers will come to realize that you are not as capable as you may seem. The effect can be harmful when it selectively reinforces negative messages and causes people to try less hard because they are convinced they are incompetent when they are not.
Green Media and Flickr @usfca
Hello #greenmedia,
Y’all should know me by now as @gleesonlibrary. If you check my bio on the library twitter account you’ll see I’m also known of as @shawncalhoun. I’ve done my best to follow each of you on Twitter from @gleesonlibrary – if somehow I missed you please tweet me so I can keep up.
Some of you have probably seen me starting to popup on your Flickr accounts as well. In addition to...
