by Mari K Eder | Sep 3, 2024 | Newsletters
Watching so much of the Olympics in August was a wonderful way to celebrate the ways in which people find and groom their specialized and particular skills to the very height of competitive excellence. Seeing how hard world-class athletes work to maintain their... 
by Mari K Eder | Aug 6, 2024 | Newsletters
I’ve been rereading some of the information on the incredible Mary Barraco and I continue to learn more about her remarkable penchant for giving back in her later years. While she fought with the resistance in Belgium during World War II, was imprisoned and tortured,... 
by Mari K Eder | Feb 1, 2023 | Newsletters
I think about Ruth Gruber whenever I read about women correspondents in WWII. Ruth wasn’t exactly a combat correspondent, however. She was an experienced newspaper reporter by 1940, starting first with the New York Herald Tribune. By 1941 she was a government...