Category: Women

January 4, 1920 – March 17, 2024 Betts at 100 … January 4, 2020 … Here she is preparing to entertain the guests at her birthday party by singing “Brush Up On Shakespeare” and reciting from memory a Shakespearean Sonnet. The…

As I write, International Women’s Day draws to a close. Women’s History Month has barely just begun. Invisible Women Historical Fiction is one of my favorite genres. I recently finished listening to Kristin Hannah’s new book, The Women … a…

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…

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,…