Margaret Lee Runbeck(1905-1956) was the author of 16 books, but her presence on the internet is one sentence at a time.  Pages of her quotes come up on Google, but very little actual biographical information.   I did discover that Margaret Lee Runbeck recorded a “This I believe” piece for Edward R. Murrow’s radio [...]

  Prof. Margaret Brimble, Chair of Organic and Medicinal Chemistry at the University of Auckland, has a desire to create beautiful and difficult molecules: Today, the creative process Margaret Brimble uses to build molecules may be compared to a game of chess: “In what we call ‘molecular chess’, we have this beautiful molecule and we have [...]

Source: mouritz.co.uk via Margaret on Pinterest   Margaret Goldie(1905-1997), was a first generation teacher of the Alexander Technique(AT).  She’s pictured here with F.M. Alexander, the persistent studier of himself, and of the ways we move by habit, and how these can cause us difficulties and pain.  I started AT lessons a couple months ago when [...]

Source: poetryfoundation.org via Margaret on Pinterest   For Martin Luther King Day, it is apt to pay tribute to Margaret Walker(1915-1998), African-American poet.  I first read her powerful poem, For My People, when I was an undergraduate.  The poem first appeared in Poetry Magazine in 1937, and became her signature piece, the poem by which [...]