“Oh Lordy Lordy.” That is what my mother might have said. Were she alive today, she would be 102. She was born before women had suffrage in the U.S. I’ve been looking for a phrase that is tame enough to not offend, but that anyone who knows me will know I am turning something on […]
Gun Violence – A Women's Issue
From Julia Ward Howe’s September 1870 “Appeal to womanhood throughout the world.“ These words were written as a women’s response to war. This Appeal is now often referred to as The Mother’s Day Proclamation. The gun violence of today tallies deaths comparable to those of war. “But women need no longer be made a party to proceedings […]