After Day 2 of the Annual NOW Conference it became very clear to me that we need to: act now to stop the erosion of women’s rights, as well as of our allies, use terms such as Christian Taliban (this is a wholly personal decision – I heard no one at the conference but me […]
NOW Conference #NOW14 – Day 1
Friday, June 27th Albuquerque, NM The annual conference of the National Association for Women is taking place at the Hyatt in downtown Albuquerque. I’m writing this from a hotel lobby bar a block away. And that is okay. I needed to get away from everything NOW to reflect on what was most important for me […]
Endless War and Women
An overt political rant is simmering within me. As some of you know, I spent a good chunk of my life, resources, and precious time when my daughter was in her teen years doing peace work. I joined with CodePink Women for Peace in February of 2003 in the streets of DC and last worked with […]
My BlogHer Retrospective: The Early Experience
This year the BlogHer Conference, that is being billed as a “Selfiebration,” returns to the place it all began 10 years ago in San Jose – Silicon Valley. So between now and the start of the conference I will be posting about various aspects of my journey with BlogHer since I joined the […]
A Nod to The Obligatory Fathers Day Post
On the way to my Father’s Day post I discovered a couple neat things. Did you know you can embed Facebook images into a blog? I do now, but I didn’t know it a half an hour ago. I was looking at the pic I’d cropped to show just Dad and me when I noticed the […]
Nice Days Normal Life
I want to write something normal, not something heady, insightful, or politically informed. I don’t want it to be about illness, depression, guns, or require a bunch of research. I have discovered some contentment has slipped in unbeknownst to me during the last couple of decades of life. In the next week my husband and […]