Day 1

Hello, everyone. I would like to introduce a new feature, Women’s Writes. I am a writer, and I have committed myself to writing about women, one full piece for every day of Women’s History Month. I plan to do this every year until women have achieved full parity of opportunity with men (I actually don’t expect to live quite that long, but I’m going to give it a serious try).

Today, March 1, is the first day of Women’s History Month 2018, and I am posting my first piece. It was a singularly crazy day, following a singularly crazy week, and so I had to keep it a bit short, but if you start off the first day by breaking your vow, I have learned you will not succeed. So I opted for a haiku. Please, gentle readers, be kind. I have not written a haiku since I was in fifth grade which was (ahem) years ago. So, without further ado, I will introduce this column with my first haiku in more than (quite a few more than) 20 years.

Here is a haiku
Written by a woman who
Does not write haiku.

Haiku for Day One of Women's History Month, 2018:

If women treated
Men like men treat women, we
Would hear the men howl.