Barbie(s) on Pixabay "Live your dream." ~ Barbie, in The Princess and The Pauper “What makes you different just might be your greatest strength.” ~ Barbie, in A Mermaid Tale “True courage is pursuing your dream, even when everyone else says it’s impossible.” ~ Barbie, in Barbie and The Three Musketeers When I was a … Continue reading WOMEN IN THE WORKPLACE: BARBIE, THE BUSINESS EXECUTIVE (ETC. ETC. ETC.)
"The issue of women serving in the pastorate is an issue of fundamental Biblical authority that does violate both the doctrine and the order of the Southern Baptist Convention." ~ Albert Mohler, Ninth President of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary "It's a very tiny brain you're housing in there, isn't it?" ~ Dawn French as … Continue reading WOMEN IN THE WORKPLACE: THE CHURCH LADIES
When a person can be married in the morning and thrown out of a restaurant for being gay in the afternoon, this is still wrong....This law, and the love it defends, strike a blow against hate in all its forms. And that’s why this law matters to every single American, no matter who you are … Continue reading WEDDING BELLES, REDUX
Only with gun violence do we respond to repeated tragedies by saying that mourning is acceptable but discussing how to prevent more tragedies is not. But that's unacceptable. As others have observed, talking about how to stop mass shootings in the aftermath of a string of mass shootings isn't 'too soon.' It's much too … Continue reading THE WORKPLACE: BOOKS, GUNS AND CHOICE – PART TWO
Photo from the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) Barbara Jordan - 1936-1996 "Earlier today, we heard the beginning of the Preamble to the Constitution of the United States: "We, the people." It's a very eloquent beginning. But when that document was completed on the seventeenth of September in 1787, I was not included in … Continue reading BARBARA JORDAN – A TIMELESS SHERO
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The Divine Miss Maude (2002 - 2022) By the edge of a woods, at the foot of a … Continue reading OVER THE RAINBOW BRIDGE
by Jeanne Nelson “Someone struggled for your right to vote. Use it.” ~ Susan B. Anthony “Voting is the expression of our commitment to ourselves, one another, this country, and this world.” ~ Sharon Salzberg “The ballot is stronger than the bullet.” ~ Abraham Lincoln "Our lives begin to end the day we become … Continue reading A DEADLINE YOU MUST NOT MISS
"After a good dinner, one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations." ~ Oscar Wilde "We sat together as a family for dinner at night. And my mother had a job. My dad had a job. But there was always a meal on the table at 6:00, you know." ~ Trisha Yearwood "When I'm sittin' … Continue reading FAMILIES THAT DINE TOGETHER SHINE TOGETHER
“I don’t know what is ahead, but the Covid-19 variants are not done with us."~ Dr. Michael Osterholm, co-author of Getting to and Sustaining the Next Normal: A Roadmap for Living With Covid "That which does not kill us makes us stronger."~ Attributed to Friedrich Nietzsche "The same way the U.S. invests in and prepares … Continue reading SERIES ~ PANDEMIC LESSONS LEARNED – PART SIX: COPING WITH COVID NOW & PREPARING FOR THE NEXT PANDEMIC
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