When I was asked to write for Women’s History Month, it was suggested that I might base a piece on my grandmother’s diaries. Grandma wrote faithfully in those small, 5-year diaries that allowed for a few lines each day. The diaries, when we had found all of them, were transcribed by family members and published by my sister, Mary Callam, as A Soft and Gentle Voice: The Diaries of Martha Strube Boc…