She made history

I saw this bumper sticker, which still makes me grin, on a big truck parked on Elizabeth.

And I instantly thought of its truth relative to my friend Marylou -- Bootsie -- who had sent me an email.

She was being ill-behaved, because she was boasting a bit, but with such a great message.

I hope she'll forgive me for quoting parts of her note to me.

She had gone into Berkeley from her home in Sonoma for a publisher's reception because she'd been included in "Feminists Who Changed America, 1963-1975," a scholarly publication from the University of Illinois Press, under the aegis of the Veteran Feminists of America and the Pioneer Feminist Project.

And sure enough, there she is on pages 194 and 195. Her note:

I found my listing and gulped back the tears. I felt so absolutely validated to see myself in print, seeing it as an entry in a most respectable reference book, validated me in a most special way. What I've done doesn't seem to me particularly phenomenal, but seeing it like that. ...

PS: I was given a name sticker calling me a "biographee" and seeing this, all these young women had me sign my entry on their books. "In sisterhood, Marylou" i scribbled and felt like a movie star.

No, a maker of history.