Tag: women

  • Boxes and Bags and Threads

    Boxes and Bags and Threads

    I have the rest of my mom’s family materials. It’s a lot to unpack.

  • Minnie’s Lament

    Minnie’s Lament

    A most unimaginable loss.

  • Mother Love: The Townsends (Pt 2)

    Mother Love: The Townsends (Pt 2)

    Feb. 16, 1921; Santa Barbara, Calif. Caroline Townsend Comstock had been married in a bohemian ceremony, at dawn, on the top of a mountain. Her husband designed bookplates and was an expert lepidopterist. They began their married life in an artists’ colony. She knew about choosing a life outside the mainstream. And she also recognized…