The Resolute Woman

Author: resolutewoman

  • Everything you need to know about love

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    I found the book called Everything I Need to Know about Love I Learned from a Little Golden Book by Diane Muldrow on a table with other books for Valentine’s gifts at Barnes & Nobles. One page featured an illustration of Little Red Riding Hood. “Of course, there are a lot of wolves out there,”…

  • The simple pleasure of flowers

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    Mary Cassatt usually avoided painting flowers. “She avoided a genre in which many female artists historically had been confined,” explained the words next to her painting in a exhibit called “Bouquets” at the Dallas Museum of Art. Her painting was beautiful and so were the many other colorful paintings in the exhibit. All of them…

  • Sarah, Plain and Tall

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    I bought a copy of Patricia MacLachlan’s book Sara, Plain and Tall for the third-grade student I “mentor” once a week at an elementary school near my home. I bought it because I remembered when my daughter read it, and the title has always intrigued me. So, I read the book, for ages six to…

  • A wife like a dog

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    As a young woman, Pope Joan, a ninth-century woman who disguised herself as a man and rose to become the only female to serve as pope, decided never to get married. One reason was the words she heard when a friend got married, explains Donna Woolfolk Cross in her historical novel Pope Joan. The priest…

  • A brain and a uterus

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    If you sometimes wonder how much progress women have made, read an interesting book called Pope Joan by Donna Woolfolk Cross. Pope Joan, a ninth-century woman who disguised herself as a man and eventually became the only female to serve as pope, lived during what definitely was the Dark Ages for women. For example, when…

  • Just do something

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    If you’ve made reasonable, specific, measurable resolutions, all you have to do is get started. Do something! If you’re like me, you spend a lot of time thinking about what you’re going to do. Procrastinating. Worrying about how you’re going to accomplish your goal. Often, I have to push myself to get started. However, once…

  • Be reasonable

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    I felt great last summer when I was walking three miles every day. However, during the holidays, I got so busy that I stopped walking. And, then, I broke my toe, and now I’m wearing a surgical shoe. “Can I still walk my dog in the morning?” I asked the podiatrist. “Yes,” he answered. “Just…

  • Don’t expect perfection

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    I made a resolution to lose five pounds, but then I went out to dinner and ate too much bread and butter and a wonderful piece of chocolate cake with lots of calories. You don’t have to be perfect, says Jessica Setnick in the December 30, 2014, issue of The Dallas Morning News. If you…

  • It’s time for resolutions

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    As you may remember, Fayteen and I think it’s best to wait until after the hurry of the holidays to make resolutions for the new year. However, now that it’s almost February, we’re going to be Resolute Women and make some goals for 2015.In the next few blog posts, we’re going to share some tips…

  • Time to clean up my act

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    I often find inspiration in unexpected places. While I waiting a long time in the podiatrist’s office to check about my swollen toe, I opened up WebMD magazine to an article titled “Ready to Order—Have a clutter problem? Get to the root of it and learn how to clean up your act for good.” The…