Writing the Book–My Africa Memoir–Was the Easy Part
Writing, writing, writing—12 to 14 hours a day. I loved it! I was writing down my memories of Africa and of smallpox eradication—some humorous, some horrifying. So many chapters to …
Memoir Manuscript Glitch
Okay. Okay. So why is my memoir manuscript suddenly 60 pages longer? What’s the glitch? What happened to my formatting? Sorry folks. I’ll be back soon with another blog post …
The 90.47% Vote RE: My Africa Memoir
90.47% of you voted “NO” – the no vote meaning do not take down the cards. The chapter-title cards that danced all over my living room floor, outlining my Africa …
Updated* My Africa Memoir Hits A Milestone
Celebrate with me, my friends. I’ve just sent the manuscript for my Africa memoir Vaccines & Bayonets: Fighting Smallpox in Africa amid Tribalism, Terror and the Cold War off to the proofreader. …
My Africa Memoir Hits A Milestone
Celebrate with me, my friends. I’ve just sent the manuscript for my Africa memoir Vaccines & Bayonets: Fighting Smallpox in Africa amid Tribalism, Terror and the Cold War off to the proofreader. …
Smallpox / Public Health Hero Loses to Cancer at 80
Dr. Davida Coady has lost her battle with ovarian cancer. She was 80 years old. Davida Coady, physician who treated refugees in Biafra and helped eradicate smallpox in India, dies …
Smallpox Attacks 18th Century Boston; George Washington Risks Inoculating Troops
Wails and delirium of the dying and the putrid stench of smallpox seep from the windows and billow from the doors. They flood the streets of Boston and rise to …
38 Years Ago Today Smallpox Declared Eradicated
Today, May 8, 2018 is the 38th anniversary of the World Health Organization’s proclamation of a smallpox-free world. The photo above is the commemorative medallion presented to my husband for …
Inoculation Proves its Worth; Mozart Gets Smallpox as Dad Says No Inoculation
1717. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, feminist wife of Britain’s ambassador to Ottoman Empire, is stunned by the Turks’ means of conferring immunity against smallpox, inoculation/variolation with smallpox. Having been earlier ravaged …
Lady Montagu, 18th Century British Aristocrat, Feminist, Smallpox Fighter and Public Health Heroine
The year is 1718. Smallpox inoculation is unknown in Western cultures, and vaccine is still decades in the future. Commoners and kings are powerless against the onslaught of the speckled …