February 27, 2022
Celebrating Indomitable Spirits
The recent days of terror in the Ukraine have touched me deeply. A peaceful country that has been strategically and ruthlessly attacked because they are valuable.
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February 20, 2022
The Best General
Mary Ann searched daily for the wounded and when darkness fell, she listened at the edges of the battlefields for the groans of wounded men that were overlooked.
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February 13, 2022
“Life has been wonderful.”
She was the first African American woman to graduate from Grinnell College, in Grinnell, Iowa. Who was this woman?
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February 6, 2022
“The Lady Doctor”
She made house calls, first in a horse and buggy, then a bicycle and eventually in a car, specializing on obstetrics, gynecology, pediatrics and family medicine.
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January 30, 2022
Badass Woman with a Heart of Gold
Mary Fields was born a plantation slave in Hickman County, Tennessee, sometime in 1832 in the home of Judge Edmund Dunne and his wife Josephine who had five children.
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January 23, 2022
“The Great Austin Matriarchy.”
She was determined to go to college, though such was not done, in those days. It got very interesting along about here.
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January 2, 2022
Confidence, the Key to Success!
An all-women class from Little Red River Cree Nation in northern Alberta graduated recently with their heavy equipment operator certificates.
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January 1, 2022
Blessings
It is a new year, and I am not one to make formal resolutions...but I do think a lot about the year that has past.
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December 24, 2021
Winter Women
When winter comes to a woman’s soul, she withdraws into her inner self, her deepest spaces
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December 19, 2021
No Teno Quah…
Grace Thorpe was born in Yale, Oklahoma, on December 10, 1921. Grace’s parents, Iva Miller and Jim Thorpe, gave her a Native American name inspired by her great-grandmother, No Teno Quah.
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