The Bronx

The Bronx, my childhood home, and one of the five boroughs of New York City which more often than not gets a bad rap, an unfair reputation of being a not-so-nice place.  Certainly not a place to raise your kids.  Fortunately for the United States, a one Mrs. Sotomayor found the Bronx to be a fine place to raise her children.  From the Bronx to the United States Supreme Court, Justice Sonia Sotomayor sits on the highest court in the land.

1090 Rosedale Avenue, Bronx, New York, the childhood home of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor

Tough women don’t need guns

Step aside Sarah Palin.  Toting a machine-gun, hunting down wolves and bears in the Alaskan wild doesn’t make a woman tough.  (Especially not if she’s shooting from the air.)  How about this for tough?  Being surrounded by cranes, tractors, all sorts of heavy machinery, building materials, debris, and endless vehicles passing within feet of you at high-speed.  Women highway construction workers are found everywhere in our country, even in the “elite” Northeast.  So?  What’s your definition of tough?  Shooting wildlife from an airplane for sport?  Or, putting yourself in harm’s way building and rebuilding our nation’s roads?

A New York woman on the job, rebuilding our roads

Machinery designed to build, not kill

Highway construction worker keeping things safe