I am a very active reader. In the sense where I read all the time and in the sense that I am quite active as I read. I have a multi color underlining and circling code as well as different ways to fold, tare and mark pager for later reference purposes. On top of this…
The Poem that inspired the book Imagine a Woman in Love with Herself. Imagine a women who believes it is right and and good she is a woman. A woman who honors her experience and tells her stories. Who refuses to carry the sins of others within her body and life. Imagine a woman who…
Children. The children of now are our future. If children are our future what kind of future do we hope to have? As parents what are we parenting? As teachers what are we teaching? As society what are we providing as an example? Do we want more of the same? Can we envision something better?…
I received an email from a dear friend today that I wanted to share with you. Its one of those emails you are supposed to forward which I don’t love, so I have made a few changes. My Room of Women, I am supposed to pick 6 women who have touched my life and who…
Wow, where will I begin on this one? I guess I should start with how I selected the book. Room came with a big two thumbs up from two of my bibliophilic friends, Julie and Vicki, whose tastes in books, and subsequent recommendations, I value. That, along with the fact that Michael Cunningham who authored…
FLAGS Album by Brooke Fraser Discovering Brooke Fraser did nothing short of change my life. I know it sounds dramatic, but listening to “C.S. Lewis Song” affirmed the beliefs I carried in my chest that I had a hard time coming to voice: that there is something bigger than me, than all of us, something…
Tomorrow begins a new year. This is a time for looking back at the past and looking forward to the coming year. This is a time for feeling gratitude for where your life is and setting goals for where you want your life to go. For many this is a time of sadness in seeing…
I AM AN EMOTIONAL CREATURE by Eve Ensler I love being a girl. I can feel what you’re feeling as you’re feeling it inside the feeling before. I am an emotional creature. Things do not come to me as intellectual theories or hard-shaped ideas. They pulse through my organs and legs and burn up my…
In a brief conversation, a man asked a woman he was pursuing the question: ‘What kind of man are you looking for?’ She sat quietly for a moment before looking him in the eye & asking, ‘Do you really want to know?’ Reluctantly, he said, ‘Yes.’ She began to expound, ‘As a woman in this day…