First posted September 5, 2016. About thirty years ago, I was at the peak of my writing career. I had a New York Times bestseller When Society Becomes an Addict , which was also nominated for best political book of the year, I was frequently on TV and radio talk shows, some of which used me as a regular consultant, and I was regularly booked as a keynote speaker for conferences. I even had my own personal stalker. In the eyes of the culture, I had it made. All this attentio

First posted March 13, 2017. These two women played a significant role in my young life. As I looked around me, almost all of the...

First posted March 9, 2017. I was born during Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s Presidency. Indeed, I was well on my way to being a teenager...

First posted February 2, 2017. If there is one topic that major political parties, disparate societies, individuals and the entire...

First posted January 30, 2017 Sometimes it is easier to grasp personal issues. We can see that we “might” have problems individually and...

First posted December 1, 2016. I have never been a big fan of the “what if’s” and “if only’s.” Yet, there is one “what if” that has...

First posted November 28, 2016. My response to Barack Obama’s article in Glamour, August 4, 2016 on What a Feminist Looks Like –...

First posted November 17, 2016. To follow up on my recent blog, Thank You Trump Boys, I want to explore some of the myths of what I call...

First posted October 31, 2016. I never thought I would be saying those words. And yet, if your rude, obnoxious, abusive, cavalier...

First posted October 24, 2016. When I was active in the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960’s (my family was always active in civil...

First posted October 20, 2016. All too often in the culture in which we have been raised, our special gifts as women have been ridiculed,...

First posted October 10, 2016. How often we fail to see that anything and everything that comes into our lives has the potential to be an important – even the most important – teacher. If we are open, our teachers come in every shape, color, form and species. How poverty-stricken we are when all our teachers – whether people, books, or something else – look and sound just like we do! For example, recently Phyllis Schlafly died. I remember “back in the day” in the St. Louis ar

First published October 10, 2016. “Your Cheatin’ Heart Will Tell on You” This old country-western song is being sung to Donald Trump by...

First posted October 6, 2016. How about those Williams’ sisters! And, how about the women at the Olympics bringing home the medals!? As we look around us, the women of the planet seem to be breathing new blood into the planet as a whole and for women in particular. We women are not only coming in first within our own ranks, we are breaking the records set by men. And, how often do we hear these women say that they are not so focused on “beating” the others, they are focused o

First posted on September 22, 2016. I understand Hillary. I understand her because I am a woman who has listened to the intimate stories of thousands of women all over the world. I understand her because I am almost fifteen years her senior and have lived through the same social, political and cultural phases of our society with a little more of a perspective on the changes that were occurring during those years of great change for the women of this culture and this planet. I

First posted September 12, 2016. There Will Be a Thousand Years of Peace and Prosperity and They Will Be Ushered in by the Women is written as a “flip” book. This means that there are two versions of the same book under one cover written in two different styles. The first book is written in the style of an IRISH/CHEROKEE/WOMAN which is what I am! The second is written – as much as I am capable – in a style more comfortable with the dominant system. Version I meanders more. T