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The Journal
A place for thoughts, letters, poems, and reflections from Among Roses.
Read about womanhood, beauty, sound, nature, ritual, body wisdom, emotional seasons, and the small moments that help a woman feel close to herself again.
What We Can Learn From Our Grandmothers
Some knowledge never makes it into books. It lives in the oldest woman in the family, and it leaves the world quietly when she does, unless someone thinks to ask.
Sara Bousiali
Jun 243 min read
Maya Angelou: The Woman Who Gave Pain a Voice
She turned a silenced childhood into some of the most important writing of the century, and showed what it means to speak your truth out loud.
Sara Bousiali
Jun 244 min read
Marie Curie: The Woman Who Changed What We Are Made Of
She discovered new elements, coined the word radioactivity, and remains the only person ever to win Nobel Prizes in two different sciences.
Sara Bousiali
Jun 245 min read
Hildegard of Bingen: The Medieval Woman Who Did Everything
A 12th-century nun who was a healer, scientist, composer, writer and mystic, and centuries ahead of almost everyone around her.
Sara Bousiali
Jun 245 min read
The Lost Arts of Womanhood
For most of history, women were the keepers of skills the modern world quietly set aside. Some of them are worth reclaiming.
Sara Bousiali
Jun 242 min read
The Quiet Inventions: How Women Shaped the World Without the Credit
There's even a name for the pattern of crediting a woman's work to someone else.
Sara Bousiali
Jun 233 min read
Half of What You Call "Ancient Wisdom" Was Invented by Women
Beer, bread, farming, cloth — some of civilization's foundations were likely women's work.
Sara Bousiali
Jun 233 min read
What Your Great-Grandmother Knew That We're Relearning Now
A lot of what we sell as wellness, she simply called Tuesday.
Sara Bousiali
Jun 233 min read
The First Storytellers Were Women at the Fire
Long before books, culture survived because women remembered it out loud.
Sara Bousiali
Jun 233 min read
Before Doctors, There Were Grandmothers
For most of human history, medicine lived in the hands of women. It never fully left.
Sara Bousiali
Jun 233 min read
The Women Who Were Called Witches Were Often Just Healers
The real history is stranger, sadder and more interesting than the story you've been told.
Sara Bousiali
Jun 234 min read
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