Shirley Sherrod says Kiss My Non-Racist BeeHind
So on the day she was “fired” (asked to resign by USDA Deputy Under Secretary Cheryl Cook after a series of phone calls telling her to pull over and write her resignation on her Blackberry […]
March 2016
I Wish I Could Follow my own Convictions
Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) is one of my favorite subjects because she was a paradox in the truest form – ‘practice what I preach, not what I do.’ She was the second of six children born […]
My Favorite St. Patrick’s Day Joke
The Pope goes to New York. He is picked up at the airport by a limousine. He looks at the beautiful car and says to the driver, “You know, I hardly ever get to drive. Would you please let me?” […]
We Remember: Serena Shim Sacrificed her Life to Tell their Stories
I tease Millennials because of their collective angst about anything that appears to be uncomfortable – constructive criticism, awards where only the top talent is honored and jobs that require daily routine and painful monotony. My […]
15 Minutes of Fame in 15 Months
Annie Londonderry, that she made a wager of $5000 that she would bike around the world in 15 months. […]
The Power of a Dream
In 1967, dancer Marta Beckett (1924) and her husband of five years were touring in California and decided to spend a few days camping in Death Valley. A fateful flat tire sent them to the […]
The Sad Truth about Sacagawea
The truth about Sacagawea is instead the story of a young teenager, forced into slavery and marriage at just 13 by a Canadian trapper, Toussaint Charbonneau, who purchased her from the Hidatsa tribe after she was kidnapped along with four other girls a year earlier from the Shoshone tribe where her father was chief. […]
WHEN WOMEN MEANT IT: Killed by the King’s Horse for Women’s Rights
At one time or another, many of us have had a friend like Emily Wilding Davison. […]
Seneca Falls Convention’s 11 Resolutions
Seneca Falls 11 Resolutions at written by Stanton. #9, asking for women’s suffrage challenged even Mott, “Why, Lizzie, thee will make us ridiculous.” Stanton refused to submit. “But I persisted, for I saw clearly that […]
I see humans, but no humanity.
You can’t regulate kindness or institute an empathy rule. I know that now. For the past five months, I’ve seen many humans, but so little humanity. Worse, cruelty is openly exacted on the broken souls who […]