Category: Social Justice

A monument erected to honor the sacrifice of women slaves subjected, without anesthetic, to experiments by the “father of modern gynecology” The Stars Were Aligned Sometime the week before Diana and I left, this segment appeared on the PBS nightly…

A Deep Longing This drive from Selma to Montgomery touched a deep longing I have carried for a long time … a longing for a different, more humane world. Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech delivered at a…

Starting Our Day Before checking out of the hotel, we searched the internet and learned that the Selma Interpretive Center was closed due to lack of staffing. And so, before we ventured forth, we watched a powerful National Parks video of events surrounding “Bloody…

Diana and I had been talking about taking a Civil Rights tour of Selma and Montgomery, Alabama for several years. She knew it was on my bucket list. She made it possible by sandwiching the trip between visits with her…

In 1975, my consciousness shifted powerfully in my first Seminary class, “Woman, Man, and the Sexual Revolution.” My eyes were opened for the first time to the effects on me of living in a culture that devalues women. In 1984,…

Tribute How blessed we are when a Woman of Wisdom touches our life. Film maker and documentarian, Julia Reichert touched mine in a significant and life-changing way. On Thursday, December 1, 2022, Julia lost her four-and-a-half year battle with a…

As I write this, I am exhausted! Week before last, just when I thought everything was in place for my daughter’s healthcare going forward, I learned that it was not. That checklist I put together to help others was incomplete….

A few months ago, my seminary friend, Pam, introduced me to Diana Butler Bass. Diana has a doctorate in religious studies and is an author of numerous books and a sought-after speaker.  I subscribed to her newsletter. She occasionally sends…

Back to Wednesday, October 3 Once I understood Nicole’s eligibility for Medicare Dual Advantage plans … the vision, dental, and over-the-counter benefits involved … the benefits she lost when moving into Assisted Living … and that Medicaid would pick up…

What Was I Thinking? In my last post, I wrote: His (Bryan Stevenson’s) next statements were an awakening as I saw the parallels for women’s concerns: “We don’t realize that we are in the very early days of a post-apartheid/post-genocide era in…