Pliny's letters offer a significant source of information about the lives of Roman women (predominantly, though not exclusively, upper-class women) during the late first and early second centuries CE. In the 368 letters included in his ten published books of epistles, Pliny mentions over 30 women by name, addresses letters to seven, and refers to well over 40 anonymous women. Many of the references are brief comments in letters whose topics are the activities of Pliny's male acquaintances. Nonetheless his letters inform us about the roles of women in Roman families, marriages, and households,...

My mother 's emails are as rambling as her life has been. In the movie, Tumbleweeds, you saw a slice of my life with her, literally. Every time I get an email from my mom I have to call my friends and read them aloud. After an audience formed, impatiently waiting to hear about my mom's life as a senior on the dating scene or the foods she was avoiding or how she'd changed her name yet again, I decided to compile a few years worth of her gems.