Category: Making a Difference

Remembering Julia Reichert

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…

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Pushed to the Edge

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….

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Praying Without Ceasing

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…

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Revealing My Dawning Awareness

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…

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Oooops

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…

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Today is “Women’s INequality Day”

On Tuesday, August 23, I received this email from the League of Women’s Voters: August 26, otherwise known as Women’s Equality Day, marks the anniversary of the certification of the 19th amendment, which granted some women the right to vote. Yet in…

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Shifting Narratives

A couple of weeks ago I joined some members of the local chapter of the League of Women Voters for a presentation sponsored by the Diversity Office of Sinclair Community College. We listened to a conversation between Jon Stewart and…

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Responsibility

Responsibility … a word we rarely hear these days. Instead, we hear “freedom” and “rights” from those who would strip others of theirs. This morning (July 11), I turned on the TV to check the weather. After wading through myriad…

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