Penney Kome
About Penney Kome
Penney Kome was born and raised in Hyde Park, Chicago, home of the Chicago Daily Defender, where she placed an article in 1967 before she immigrated to Toronto in January 1968.
Kome wrote the national “Woman’s Place” column in Homemakers magazine for 12 years and the local “A Woman’s View” in the Calgary Herald for four years.
Kome is author or editor of six books, including The Taking of 28: Canadian Women Challenge the Constitution. She has served as Chair of The Writers Union of Canada (TWUC) and of Access Copyright, and as President of the Bain Apartments Co-op. She lives in Calgary with her husband of 36 years.
The elephant in the climate conference room
Aggressive Russian bombing in Ukraine increases the world’s greenhouse gas quotient by as much as another whole European country might produce — without any accountability or even discussion at climate talks.
Growing up in the atomic age: How the Manhattan Project affected my childhood
Dr. Donald (Moll) Flanders had dreams of peace as the Manhattan Project’s head of computation. But unlike his boss, Robert Oppenheimer, Moll did not live long enough to crusade for global abolition of the atomic bomb — and of all forms of warfare.