In the wealthy USA where 99% of people have running water and adequate sanitation, authorities are not kind to moms without resources. The surrounding geographic area often has resources like running water that a mother can access without charge and at most hours of the day. The water is more accessible than to most mothers in Bangladesh, more accessible than clean water is to 633 Million people on this planet in this day and age. Americans sponsor projects to get…..
The Rio Olympics may be the athlete’s big event, but for those watching they can inspire a new beginning. As Katinka Hosszu of Hungary shows us what it its like to come back stronger than ever and smash a world record, we can dream. As Oksana Chusovitina competes for Uzbekistan in her 7th Olympics at age 41, we can say like her as we are given another day to wake up in the morning, “I can do more.” One way…..
The Vietnam war started before I can remember and lasted until I was nearly grown. Yet this Memorial to the women that served in Vietnam wasn’t completed until after I was having children. Somewhere in between I was told this story by a woman who felt her buddies were left out of Memorial Day. The woman was in Vietnam serving alongside other women near the front, tending to the wounded. She had never intended to be in a war; she…..
When I heard Ted Cruz was evoking the image of solitary five year old in a public restroom I was flabbergasted. Does he really let a five year daughter old go into a public rest room alone? Fathers, both single fathers and fathers on father-daughter excursions, have to take their young children with them to the rest room just like moms do, don’t they? The image was concocted to counter objections to a law in North Carolinaspecifying how to choose…..
In honor of Woman’s History Month, let me introduce the life and work of Anne Hutchinson. Three hundred seventy nine years ago Anne Hutchinson was the mother of fifteen, the respected midwife and counselor, and a house-church leader. Banished from Boston, she settled as a refugee from persecution for cause of conscience on Aquidneck Island near Roger Williams’s colony, an experiment in the separation of church and state. Roger Williams helped her come to his region even though he did not…..
Helping Which Other Women? When Madeleine Albright repeated in the context of current politics her famous quote “There is a special place in hell for women who don’t help other women,” it made me stop and think. My decision is to vote for whoever best supports the “Little Minnows,” half of whom are women, wanted at inception by biological mom or not. And if the current woman running for office isn’t standing there, if I don’t support her that doesn’t…..