If you are looking for inspiration for whatever it is you want to accomplish, let these women’s stories wash over you and renew your faith in what we women can do. Read: 14 Inspirational […]
I am the author of a poetry chapbook, I Will Meet You at the River, (as Suzannah Gilman), frequent traveler, and a licensed attorney who represented victims of domestic violence under a grant from the U.S. Dept. of Justice Office on Violence Against Women. My poetry, essays, fiction, and nonfiction have in such in such publications as The Florida Review, Pearl Magazine, Calyx Journal, Green Hills Literary Lantern, Pearl Magazine, Prick of the Spindle, Slow Trains, The Cafe Review, and The Meridian Anthology of Contemporary Poetry. I competed in flash fiction slams, winning every time. I won Literary Death Match on my 50th birthday. Twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize for poetry, I now concentrate on blogging for The Gloria Sirens and writing fiction. I have four children, four daughters-in-law, and four grandchildren. I live with my husband, the poet Billy Collins, in Florida.
If you are looking for inspiration for whatever it is you want to accomplish, let these women’s stories wash over you and renew your faith in what we women can do. Read: 14 Inspirational […]
Alma mater, translated from Latin, means “foster mother.” My alma mater, Rollins College, was established on November 4, 1885. One hundred and five years later, the first female president was sworn in– as the […]
From Salon, Christine Schoenwalk and her touching account of her mother’s anti-hoarding disorder. My mother isn’t a hoarder; she’s the exact opposite. If she were a hoarder, then people would understand when […]
Amy Cuddy is a social psychologist who has some very interesting ideas on how to empower yourself, such as adopting the Wonder Woman stance. We all have done it at one time or […]
At a reception a couple of years ago, I had the good fortune to be introduced to Gloria Steinem. I held back tears of awe. (The tears were also borne of peri-menopausal hormones.) All […]
When I read this article by Rachel Edidin on Wired, I knew I had to share. In “The Art of Asking Why We Hate Amanda Palmer,” Edidin boils it right down: Amanda […]
When sisters sit together, they always praise their brothers. When brothers sit together, they sell their sisters to others. – – – I’ll make a tattoo from my lover’s blood and shame […]
“Women have always been an equal part of the past. They just haven’t been part of history.”
-Gloria Steinem
by Paula Whyman One Down. Seven letters. Clue: Can be itself, or the opposite of itself, or different in infinite fractional degrees. Or alike. It can be just alike. More of […]
This month, we Sirens are devoting ourselves to some of our best-loved words. As you will see, I don’t always go with the grain, but this rant does turn to praise. “Mindful” […]