My friend Sally, a retired nurse practitioner, examined my sprained ankle today. She predicts it may take three months for it to heal. Yikes! I am impatient. However, I have no broken bones. And, my problem is minor. My problem is minor compared to the problems faced by the people in Ukraine, Turkey and Syria, […]
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Antisemitism
by resolutewoman on February 25, 2023 in change, character
More than four in 10 Jews in the United States believe their status in this country is less secure that it was a year earlier, according to a 2023 survey by the American Jewish Committee. This is terrible. Doug Emhoff, husband of Vice President Harris, stresses: “Silence is not an option.”
Truth
by resolutewoman on February 17, 2023 in character, confidence, courage
Sometimes, it is difficult to know what to believe. We hope Sojourner Truth was right when she said, “Truth is powerful and it prevails.”
Who is an American?
by resolutewoman on February 4, 2023 in change, character
Cody Keenan, in his book Grace—President Obama and Ten Days in the Battle for America, remembers when he told President Obama that Rudy Giuliani had said that the president doesn’t love this country. President Obama replied to his speechwriter: “Who gets to decide what it means to be an American? Who gets to be the […]
Easy answers and half-truths
by resolutewoman on January 31, 2023 in change, character, courage
A friend sent me these words recently—from a Franciscan blessing for justice and peace. May God bless you with discomfort at easy answers, hard hearts, half-truths and superficial relationships. May God bless youso that you may live from deep within your heartwhere God’s Spirit dwells. May God bless you with anger at injustice, oppression and […]
Speak up
by resolutewoman on January 12, 2023 in celebrations, change, character, Uncategorized
Don’t be quiet. Speak up. I’m going to let people know what I think. That’s my resolution #6. Amanda Gorman says, “Girls have spent so much of their lives being told to be seen and not heard.” –Joy
We want more
by resolutewoman on December 10, 2022 in change, character, resolute-women, Uncategorized
When Nancy Pelosi joined the House in 1987, there were 12 Democratic women. “Now there are 90, and we want more,” Nancy said recently when resigned her leadership role. She, of course, was echoing Ruth Bader Ginsberg. Once when RBG was asked how many women were needed on the Supreme Court, she replied, “Nine.”
The power of small
by resolutewoman on December 8, 2022 in character, courage, resolute-women
Michelle Obama says it helps to focus on what you can control when you feel out of control. The things she could control during the pandemic and times of racial unrest and threats to democracy were her spools of yarn and knitting needles. She labels such thinking “power of small” in her new book The […]
The truth
by resolutewoman on November 10, 2022 in character, courage
“The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off,” Gloria Steinem once said.
We must be friends
by resolutewoman on November 8, 2022 in character, courage, friends
“We are not enemies, but friends,” Abraham Lincoln said in 1861. “We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection.”
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Our self-help book and blog are for grownups—for women who know that there are no easy answers to life’s complex problems—that finding solutions requires some self-knowledge and self-searching and hard work.
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