Angela Merkel, the Chancellor of Germany
What She Said, October 30: Angela Merkel
What She Said, October 29: Margaret Thatcher
Margaret Thatcher, First Female Prime Minister of Great Britain
What She Said, October 28: Geraldine Ferraro
Geraldine Ferraro, Vice Presidential nominee
On Signs, and Politics, and Gardening
My husband and I live in Tennessee, on the edge of Memphis. One of our friends had a sign up in his yard, one of those that says, We believe: science is […]
What She Said, October 27: Indira Gandhi
Indira Gandhi, First Female Prime Minister of India
What She Said, October 26: Ann Richards
Ann Richards, 45th Governor of Texas
Postcards From The Edge: Reclaiming Our Power
There’s so much in life we can’t control that any time we get a chance to take back our power, even a bit of it, we must seize it. That’s what writing […]
What She Said, October 18: bell hooks
For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed? -bell hooks
What She Said, October 17: Anne Lamott
Hope is not about proving anything. It’s about choosing to believe in this one thing, that love is bigger than any grim, bleak shit anyone can throw at us. -Anne Lamott
What She Said, October 16: Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
The reality is that you will grieve forever. You will not ‘get over’ the loss of a loved one: you will learn to live with it. You will heal and you will rebuild yourself around the loss you have suffered. You will be whole again but you will never be the same. Nor should you be the same nor would you want to. -Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
The Gloria Sirens 