The Resolute Woman

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  • Bringing Home the Meat

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    During the 1890s, Charles M. Russell painted a Blackfoot on horseback. Recently, while visiting the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth, I admired the painting titled “Bringing Home the Meat” and the Blackfoot woman who is the focus of Russell’s art. Unnamed, she rides with an infant on her back and the carcass of a…

  • Do your best

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    As I expected, I have found David McCullough’s book The Greater Journey—Americans in Paris packed full of stories about interesting people. But I was especially pleased to discover Emma Hart Willard because I have a niece named Emma, a wonderful 6-foot-one-inch college student who is playing basketball and studying to be a doctor. Emma Willard,…

  • How far we’ve come

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    I just went to see my new primary care physician—who happens to be a woman. In addition, my gynecologist, my dermatologist and my cardiologist are all females. Today most of us don’t think much about the gender of our doctors. That wasn’t true in 1849 when Elizabeth Blackwell, the first American woman to become a…

  • Be direct

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    Helen Thomas, the first woman assigned to the White House to cover a president, died on July 20, 2013. She was a success because “she asked every question the only way she knew how—directly,” says Robert Gibbs, who served as President Obama’s press secretary from 2009 to 2011. Gibbs wrote Thomas’ obituary for the August…

  • Never ever give up

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    We nominate Diana Nyad for Resolute Woman of the Year. After swimming 110 miles from Cuba to Florida in 52 hours and 54 minutes, Nyad, who’s 64, had three things to say. * Never ever give up. * You’re never too old to chase your dreams. * It looks like a solitary sport, but it’s…

  • Caregivers—sacrifice and joy

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    When my daughter was diagnosed with cancer, my husband and I immediately moved her into our house and I became her caretaker. Today, we are grateful that she is alive, and she has been clear of cancer for two years. However, she continues to fight the ravages of chemotherapy and radiation. I am happy to…

  • Eager for new adventures

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    While I was watching my daughter, Mary Elizabeth, walk across the stage and receive her master’s degree recently, I remembered the day she started school at Children’s House Montessori School. I was nervous that day as I drove her to school for the first time because I was sure she would be anxious about leaving…

  • A hummingbird moth?

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    My daughter, Mary Elizabeth, thought she saw a tiny hummingbird feeding on purple flowers. She followed it as it fluttered around Blue Spring near Eureka Springs, where we were vacationing recently, trying to take a photograph. She walked slowly and quietly as she pursued the tiny creature—until she saw a dark snake suddenly slide across…

  • So many amazing things

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    I just read Wild by Cheryl Strayed again before my book club discussed the book. I was impressed by Strayed’s tenacity. Even though her boots were too small and her backpack was too heavy and the snow was too slippery, she kept hiking the Pacific Crest Trail. On her journey, she remembered her mother’s death…

  • Bossy little girls

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    Yeah for bossy little girls! “I want every little girl who’s told she’s bossy to be told instead she has leadership skills,” says Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook’s chief operating officer. Colleen Walker repeated that quote recently at a meeting of Girl Scout leaders. She’s the chief executive officer of Girl Scouts of Northeast Texas, a council…