Who gets to celebrate independence today?
I am not celebrating my country's independence today. The history of the United States horrifies me. The atrocities committed by ‘the greatest nation in the world,’ even before it was…
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…
We All Have Our Own Pacific To Cross
My daughter is home from college for winter break, and the other night we sat down to watch Losing Sight of Shore, a documentary that followed a team of…
The Center Will Not Hold
Over the years, as a teacher of women writers, and as a woman writer myself, I have taught and written about countless women, their lives, and their works. I don’t…