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Sep.15.2011 Her Goal is to Grow a Healthier World The saying goes: You can’t fool Mother Earth. Those who think they can will have to contend with Vandana Shiva. Shiva is an environmental activist who has won numerous international awards for her three decades of work to protect natural resources and promote organic farming and fair trade. Time...	Sep.15.2011 Her Goal is to Grow a Healthier World The saying goes: You can’t fool Mother Earth. Those who think they can will have to contend with Vandana Shiva. Shiva is an environmental activist who has won numerous international awards for her three decades of work to protect natural resources and promote organic farming and fair trade. Time...
Sep.09.2011 She’s played with the big boys. Now she calls the shots. Perry Barber was a singer/songwriter growing up in the 1970s. She did office work for Gladys Knight, and performed as an opener for Bruce Springsteen, Billy Joel, and Hall and Oates. But music was not to be her calling. Instead, her career path lay on the baseball infield. Perry is one of a handful...	Sep.09.2011 It's NOT me.....It's YOU A few days ago a gentleman paid me a very wonderful compliment "You look beautiful and sexy" I blushed as I stood in the middle of the street wearing a sweat smelling tattered t-shirt, capri jogging pants, dirty sneakers with my hair pulled haphazardly pulled into a pony tail while my dog licked...
Aug.30.2011 Libya's Poster Girl It was only a matter of time before Libya found a totem. The psychological semantics are beautifully laid out. A 19-year-old girl. Attractive. Murderer? Victim? The shadow-play is potent. Libyan’s leader Muammar Gaddafi always had a female army alongside the traditional male one. So, what sets...	Aug.29.2011 What Would Her Mama Say If She Knew the Stories Her Daughter Was Telling? Anita Woodley, a journalist and radio producer, channels her younger self, her mother and grandmother in a one-woman play she has written to tell a powerful story about women’s leadership. It is an earnest story about sickness and healing, aging, love, and survival. Read more about Anita on...
Aug.25.2011 Three Ways Not to Celebrate Women’s Equality Day – August 26, 2011 As second wave feminism gathered peak velocity forty years ago, the late bombastic and behatted Congresswoman (D-NY) Bella Abzug persuaded Congress to designate August 26th as Women’s Equality Day. It recognized the 19th Amendment to the Constitution that in 1920 gave all U.S. women the right to...	Aug.23.2011 Are you a giver or taker? Recently over lunch a friend and I shared different stories of how someone had taken advantage of us. As we chatted we came to the conclusion that in life there are givers and there are takers. When you are giver, it is second nature to want to help someone. I remember years ago meeting up with...
Aug.22.2011 Sisters in Crime throw down the challenge to read and blog about women crime writers Sisters in Crime, a non-profit organization with the mission to “promote the professional development and the advancement of women crime writers to achieve equality in the industry” has thrown down the gauntlet for a reading challenge and one for lovers of crime fiction. Sisters in Crime has...	Aug.17.2011 Still Kicking After All These Years Have you ever wanted something SO much you were willing to wait however long it took? Well, Keiko Fukuda waited almost 80 years to realizing her dream. At the age of 98 Keiko Fukuda became the first woman to achieve a tenth-degree black belt in Judo. The petite woman not quite five feet tall has...

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