The Resolute Woman

Author: resolutewoman

  • I’m doing it

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    As I explained in a recent blog post, I am no longer drinking diet soft drinks or putting artificial sweetener in my tea. It might not seem like a big deal to you. But, it is a big deal to me. I have a tendency to be addicted to food—and to drinks—diet Pepsi for a…

  • A day at James and Jeany’s farm

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    My brother James just broke a chicken’s neck. He killed it, and now he’s plucking its feathers. My sister-in-law Jeany is working at the Los Lunas community garden. Yesterday I helped Jeany and her friend Suzanne make salsa using tomatoes, onions and green peppers from Jeany’s garden and garlic from the community garden. We canned…

  • Making an October resolution

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    For a decade now, I’ve been counting Weight Watcher points—which means a limited number of French Fries and chocolate candy. And, for a year or so, I’ve been counting carbohydrates because I’m pre-diabetic—which means no orange juice for breakfast. Now, I’m giving up diet soft drinks and artificial sweetener in my tea—because the latest research…

  • Keep going

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    Earline Loremo is an excellent role model for all of us. As Loremo, who is 90, explained in the September 30, 2014, issue of The Dallas Morning News, she always has been active, but she had a bad fall two years ago and spent several weeks in bed. But Loremo was determined to get out…

  • Growing older and wiser

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    As I mentioned in a recent blog post, I had a birthday recently. I’m happy to report that I’m not only older, I’m also a little wiser. I credit my increased wisdom to a delightful little birthday book that was a present from my brother David and his wife Barbie. In She…, Kobi Yamada writes:…

  • Happy October!

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    I looked at my calendar and panicked. So far this month, I have been to Los Lunas, New Mexico, to visit my brother James and his family and to Tulsa, Oklahoma, to attend the memorial service for our good friend Edward Dumit. Next week, I’m flying to Salt Lake City, Utah, where I will spend…

  • My trip to Middlemarch

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    I have been traveling to Middlemarch with George Eliot. It has been a long trip since Eliot’s book Middlemarch is 781 pages long. However, even though I am enjoying a visit to a provincial English town, I’m happy that my stay is temporary. The life of women in England in 1832 was restricted. As Eliot…

  • Keep working

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    Yikes! I had another birthday. But I’m not worried. I saved an article titled “The Art of Living” from the September 23, 2013, issue of Time magazine, and it contains some encouraging news. It pays to keep working—especially if you’re doing work that requires you to remain nimble, adaptive and solve problems. If you’re working,…

  • Self helpless

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    “Self helpless. You’re always one perfect advice book away from a much better you.” That’s the great headline and subhead for Kristin van Ogtrop’s essay in the July 21, 2014, issue of Time magazine. The editor of Real Simple magazine, van Ogrop confirms a message that Fayteen and I agree with completely. “Everyone wants to…

  • The Western woman’s harem

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    Fratema Mernissi, a professor of sociology at the University of Mohammed V in Rabat, Morocco, remembers trips to visit her grandmother, “who was illiterate and lived in a harem with locked gates that women were not supposed to open.” In her book Scheherazade Goes West—Different Cultures, Different Harems, Mernissi describes visiting an American department store,…