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 the Republican Party as stories of disease and sexual acting-out fill the airwaves. Yet, what about Ivanka? Why do the women never seem important in these scenarios? They had only been married for a short time and he is talking about trying to have an affair with a married woman . . . unsuccessfully, thank goodness. Yet, where are the women

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