The Resolute Woman

Category: resolute-women

  • Some advice from Wangari Maathia

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    You may not recognize the name Wangari Maathai. I do because I heard her speak at a Dallas Women’s Foundation luncheon in October 2006. Maathai, who died recently of cancer, was an incredible woman. She won the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize for her environmental work . She started the Green Belt Movement, which has planted…

  • What’s new?

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    Fayteen came racing into my office and demanded: “Read this.” As I read the e-mail message about a book that offers “secrets” for success, Fayteen kept talking. “Is this the same thing that we’re saying in our book? What are we saying that’s different?” The book discusses some important topics—how you can change by establishing…

  • Happy 100th blog post

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    We’re giving ourselves a pat on the back. This is our 100th blog post. Amazing. We’ve written three blog posts a week since February. With one exception. There was one week when Joy was busy and forgot to post one blog post. We’re proud of what we have done. We have enjoyed sharing with you…

  • Startling, unexpected, unknown?

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    Stewart O’Nan begins his book Emily Alone with a quote from Virginia Woolf. “Could it be, even for elderly people, that this was life—startling, unexpected, unknown?” Yes, of course, it could be. That’s O’Nan’s answer in this story of Emily, past 80, a widow whose grown children have long moved away. O’Nan’s thoughtful portrayal of…

  • Who are we?

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    Who are you? If you’re like us, you have a pretty good idea of who you are. Sometimes, however, you’re not exactly sure if you are the same person you were last year or if you want to make a few minor adjustments in the person you have become. We recently heard an interview with…

  • Happy 104th Birthday, Ola!

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    I stopped to visit my husband’s Aunt Ola a few days before her 104th birthday. Ola, dressed in a bright red pants and sweater, was sitting on the bench outside her independent-living apartment. She greeted me with a twinkle in her eye and a  big smile and immediately started asking me for reports on my…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Sometimes the goal is just to get through it

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    We’ve been thinking about Ranna, Fayteen’s daughter, who is being treated for breast cancer. Ranna has had some complications recently, and she had to spend several days in the hospital. She has had a tough time. That’s why I couldn’t help picking up Shelley Lewis’s book Five Lessons I Didn’t Learn from Breast Cancer (And…