The Resolute Woman

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  • Can you create your own Walden Zone?

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    As we explained in a recent blog post, Williams Powers writes in his book Hamlet’s Tables about how Shakespeare’s Hamlet used his “tables” to make a list when he felt distracted. Of course, Hamlet’s tables were much different from the list that shows up on our computer screen or telephone. Hamlet wrote on pages made…

  • Rosa Parks, senior citizen

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    Rosa Parks is remembered as the “Mother of the Civil Rights Movement” because she refused to give up her bus seat to a white man. We talked about her quiet courage in our last blog post, but we also were fascinated to learn about some of the amazing activities of this incredible woman during her…

  • Remember Rosa Parks

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    I just finished listening to the audio book Rosa Parks—A Life by Douglas Brinkley. I knew that Rosa Parks was “the prim, bespectacled, 42-year-old mulatto seamstress” who had refused to  give up her seat on the Cleveland Avenue bus in Montgomery, Alabama, on December 1, 1945. I knew what Rosa Parks did on that December…

  • Are you an optimist?

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    Tali Sharot, author of a new book called The Optimism Bias, thinks you probably are an optimist. In a recent article in Time magazine, Sharot points out that 10 percent of Americans expect to live to 100 when , in reality, only .02 percent will live that long. Also, 93 percent of people surveyed believed…

  • A little advice from Oletta Jones

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    I mentioned in an earlier blog post how much I was enjoying reading Saving CeeCee Honeycutt by Beth Hoffman. CeeCee Honeycutt is 12-years-old when her mother, who has been mentally ill for years, dies. Fortunately, CeeCee’s great-aunt Tootie Caldwell rescues her and takes her to a Southern mansion in Savannah—“a perfumed world of prosperity and…

  • Summon memories of your successes

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    Robin Oliveira tells the story of a very resolute midwife who wants to become a doctor in her book My Name is Mary Sutter. Because women weren’t supposed to become doctors during the 1860s, Mary Sutter volunteers to be a nurse during the Civil War. She mops the floors, washes sheets in boiling water in…

  • What can you do to help?

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    Shelley Lewis, in her book about breast cancer, which we mentioned in our last blog post, has some good suggestions for ways you can help a friend who has a major problem. In Five Lessons I didn’t Learn from Breast Cancer (And One Big One I Did), Lewis makes these suggestions. Don’t ask, “Is there…

  • Keep trying and trying

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    People are now reading Kathryn Stockett’s novel The Help in 39 languages, and they will go to the theaters to see the movie in August. But Stockett, who spoke in Dallas on May 3, 2011, remembers when she was receiving rejection letters from agents. Lots of rejection letters. “If I had given up after 60…

  • Are you conscientious?

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    If you are conscientious, congratulations! One study indicates that conscientiousness could be “the best personality predictor of long life.” Called the Terman Project, the study is the subject of a new book by two professors—Howard S. Friedman at the University of California and Leslie R. Martin at La Sierra University. We read about the book,…

  • From nurse to mother to writer

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    What do you do when your son’s leaves home for his first day of kindergarten? Return to nursing or become a writer? Robin Oliviera had been a registered nurse who specialized in critical care and bone marrow transplants before she stayed home with her two children for five years. She loved nursing, but she also…