Coordinates '46-'64: The Gen-B Experience

How The Weekly Reader Lied and Other Stories

Trish S Davis

Trish S Davis
Location
Lower Hudson Valley, New York, US
Birthday
January 28
Title
writer-editor-blogger
Company
band of bloggers, fellowship of freelancers. society of self-employed
Bio
I write web content for a consulting company, and blog about the Gen-B experience, feminist perspectives, nutrition, health and medicine, and green living. I've published poetry in The Ledge, Slant, PMS and others. I have manuscripts in my drawers, a feeling similar to ants in your pants.

Trish S Davis's Links

Salon.com

What Valentine's Day makes me think of is not love so much as how hard it is to take pleasure in everyday things like chocolate and flowers. I'm a cynic of the highest order. I see the deep, hidden, inner  menace in everything, which makes me feel really smart.

Sunset Storm: Tulsa "If IRead full post »

If I mention Sarah Palin, more people may read my blog. But I pay a price, even if I only give her negative attention — because any mention at all works in her favor. "Celebrity," in the sense of "in the news though not necessarily newsworthy," can lead to greater eminence.

TooRead full post »

FEBRUARY 11, 2010 3:23PM

A Better Future: Lies or Encouragement?

If you were around in the 1950s, you might remember The Weekly Reader, a small tabloid for kids filled with simple, inspiring articles about the building of interstate highways, enormous hydro-electric dams, taller and taller skyscrapers, and incredible time-saving robots for the future.

Accord… Read full post »