Posts Tagged: women

I Found Out I Can Do Something

Last Sunday, the shy little girl who was too scared to raise her hand in class and use her voice, the young woman so hampered by shame for decades that she kept silent, won the award for best voiceover in

I Found Out I Can Do Something

Last Sunday, the shy little girl who was too scared to raise her hand in class and use her voice, the young woman so hampered by shame for decades that she kept silent, won the award for best voiceover in

Access Your Rights

As women’s access to reproduction rights is rapidly diminishing, the lesson that every new generation has to fight for the same rights to protect these rights has never been clearer. Progress is possible but not guaranteed. It is no wonder

Access Your Rights

As women’s access to reproduction rights is rapidly diminishing, the lesson that every new generation has to fight for the same rights to protect these rights has never been clearer. Progress is possible but not guaranteed. It is no wonder

A Birthday Wish

Today I enter the last year of a decade I tip-toed into in 2015 with some bemusement and a not without a touch o’ disbelief. Today I turn 69 and to believe the media, I have long passed my expiration

A Birthday Wish

Today I enter the last year of a decade I tip-toed into in 2015 with some bemusement and a not without a touch o’ disbelief. Today I turn 69 and to believe the media, I have long passed my expiration

My Father Danced with Iris Apfel When No One Else Would

Eighty-eight years ago at a high school mixer, while the gym floor was crowded with couples dancing, my 15-year-old father Marvin kept his eye on another 15-year-old,  a shy female friend leaning alone against the gymnasium wall. They were neighborhood

My Father Danced with Iris Apfel When No One Else Would

Eighty-eight years ago at a high school mixer, while the gym floor was crowded with couples dancing, my 15-year-old father Marvin kept his eye on another 15-year-old,  a shy female friend leaning alone against the gymnasium wall. They were neighborhood

Katie’s Krazy Kaffee Klatch

Sitting around the comfortable kitchen table with America’s newest favorite housewife Katie Britt shooting the breeze, was intended to make you feel you were spending time with a familiar folksy neighbor. Which it might have been if you happened to

Katie’s Krazy Kaffee Klatch

Sitting around the comfortable kitchen table with America’s newest favorite housewife Katie Britt shooting the breeze, was intended to make you feel you were spending time with a familiar folksy neighbor. Which it might have been if you happened to

On International Women’s Day Remember The Hamas Hostages

As we celebrate International Women’s Day today it is imperative that we speak of the girls and women, mothers and daughters, aunts and friends who have been kidnapped in GAZA since October 7, 2023. According to a UN Report, the

On International Women’s Day Remember The Hamas Hostages

As we celebrate International Women’s Day today it is imperative that we speak of the girls and women, mothers and daughters, aunts and friends who have been kidnapped in GAZA since October 7, 2023. According to a UN Report, the

Lois Lane Black Like Me

Imagine today an award-winning white reporter from a big city newspaper posing as an African American for an investigative piece. Would New York Times journalist Maggie Haberman be willing to don blackface in the hopes of scoring a Pulitzer prize?

Lois Lane Black Like Me

Imagine today an award-winning white reporter from a big city newspaper posing as an African American for an investigative piece. Would New York Times journalist Maggie Haberman be willing to don blackface in the hopes of scoring a Pulitzer prize?

Nyad vs The Golden Bachelor- Who Gets My Rose?

In the past few weeks, I feel as though the media has morphed into the golden age of aging, though some portrayals are less than golden. In fact, some are tarnished old tropes that women have been fed since childhood.

Nyad vs The Golden Bachelor- Who Gets My Rose?

In the past few weeks, I feel as though the media has morphed into the golden age of aging, though some portrayals are less than golden. In fact, some are tarnished old tropes that women have been fed since childhood.

Rosalynn Carter First Lady of Mental Health

  I wanted to take mental illness and emotional disorders out of the closet, to let people know it is all right to admit having a problem without the fear of being called crazy. If only we could consider mental

Rosalynn Carter First Lady of Mental Health

  I wanted to take mental illness and emotional disorders out of the closet, to let people know it is all right to admit having a problem without the fear of being called crazy. If only we could consider mental

Martha Stewart- Ageless Cover Girl or Timeless Cover Up

First, it was Cheryl Tiegs in the 1970s whose 20-something California girl good looks and smokin’ body I felt I could never live up to. Then it was Christie Brinkley’s perfect 10 bod raising the bar in the eighties. Bikini-clad

Martha Stewart- Ageless Cover Girl or Timeless Cover Up

First, it was Cheryl Tiegs in the 1970s whose 20-something California girl good looks and smokin’ body I felt I could never live up to. Then it was Christie Brinkley’s perfect 10 bod raising the bar in the eighties. Bikini-clad