The Darkest Day
My fondest memories of the winter solstice were when my kids were young, and the cartoon Little Bear was popular. There was a winter solstice episode, and it was filled…
“The Defendant Was Angry That He Was Being Ignored”
19-year-old Ruth George was killed in the early hours of November 23rd when she was attempting to get to her car in a parking garage on the University of Illinois…
The Greatest Tragedy of All
I was baptized Catholic. I had no choice in the matter. In 1956, when my mother, who was Methodist, married my father, who was Catholic, she had to agree to…
Violence Against Women Doesn’t Stop When the Government Shuts Down
~24 people per minute are victims of intimate violence—more than 12 million people per year~ The fact that the Violence Against Women Act expired when the government shut down…
Questioning the Divine Order
Did you know that women couldn't vote in Switzerland until 1971? And even then, not all women were included. It wasn’t until 1990 that the conservative region of Appenzell Innerrhoden…
My Own Manifesto
The events of last Thursday and Friday ripped open countless women’s wounds, revictimizing them and forcing them to relive their own trauma. I was one of those women. I…
Denial
The biggest predictor of change is misery. The biggest reason people will change is because they are suffering to a degree that they can’t continue to live the same way.…
Radical Kindness
Love is at the root of everything, all learning, all parenting, all relationships. Love or the lack of it. ~ Fred Rogers I wish that as a child I…
Take Your Feet Off Our Necks
I ask no favor for my sex. All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks. ~ RBG What surprised me most about…
Wangari Maathai
The ‘little, little grassroots people’ can change this world
“You raise your consciousness to a level where you feel that you must do the right thing, because it is the only right thing to do.” ~ Wangari Maathai…