What. A. Summer. News of late (that could mean 2 weeks or 18 months, with the way things are going) has had something for everyone. Wars? Check. Natural Disasters? Check. Assassinations? Political unrest? Threat of job loss? Check, check, check. There is much to fear in this world. And yet.....we are told over and over…
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To My Friend, After Texas.
It has been nearly a week of Texas protecting their smallest residents and the hysteria from abortion defenders is still at a fever-pitch. Yet in their maddness claiming that Texas women are oppressed (the women of Afghanistan might beg to differ on what is defined as "oppressed"), they fail to see how their rhetoric is…
Is This the Kind of History Worth Celebrating?
They say itās a historic week. A week where a woman took the oath for the second-highest office in the land. If that were all, I could applaud. Yet the tragic irony is that this same woman and the administration she is part of are determined to do everything in their power to decimate the…
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What We Need When the Sky is Falling
I donāt need to hear more voices telling me the train is careening precariously close to the canyon cliff. I can see it with my own eyes.ā£ā£And I donāt need more finger pointed, anger laced, fear based sound bites trying to simplify this tangled mess.ā£ So I'll let my words be few as well.ā£ What…
Our Hope In A Weary World
For those that would prefer to listen, rather than read. My friendās husband died this week. Or do we say passed away? Iām not used to this kind of thing, the losing of people when theyāre young and their kids are babes and their now-widows havenāt even hit their thirties. No matter how you try…
The Most Important Result for Election 2020
From every side the battery of voices is telling us this is the most important election of our time. While every election matters for how it will at minimum set the course for the next few years of a nation, Election 2020 feels like a choosing between two very different narratives of Americaās past, present…
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In remembrance: I am one of the women silently grieving the loss of a baby
This post was originally sent as a Live Action email on October 15, 2020, for Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Day.Ā The spotting started while we were out of town celebrating my brotherās wedding. I frantically googled every day, playing doctor while the whisper of fear started to form a knot in my stomach. Four…
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The Hypocrisy of Modern Feminism
Last week, the President nominated a woman to fill the newly vacant seat on the Supreme Court and feminists everywhere cheered. Once again, a woman would be presiding on the highest court of the land, bringing her impressive legal history and intellect to bear on some of the most consequential cases of our time. She…
The Death of RBG in a Time of Incivility
By now you probably know that Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg passed away on Friday. I donāt line up with all, or probably many, of her ideologies. But what I can absolutely admire and applaud is that she was a woman raised in poverty who didnāt let her beginnings make her a victim. She was a…
The Only Way Forward During This Chaos
Yāall still standing? What a couple of weeks this has been. Or perhaps longer. In quarantine, time stands still and yet somehow, weāre nearly half way through June. I have been sitting here for days (weeks?), trying to put words together to say something about the social unrest, about the searing wounds opened and bleeding…