Celebrating: V-Day25!
It began 25 years ago today with Eve Ensler’s production of The Vagina Monologues and became a world-wide One Billion Rising (OBR) call for freedom and an end to violence […]
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Book Review: Surviving Savannah
Do you want to live? This is the quintessential question Patti Callahan dares to ask trauma survivors in Surviving Savannah. The answer makes all the difference in the quality of […]
Sen. Heidi Heitkamp: Profile in Courage
Sen. Heidi Heitkamp (D-ND) is on Sen. Mitch McConnell’s (R-KY) and the NRA’s hit lists. They want her gone. North Dakota is a red state, and it would have politically […]
Shooting Rampages: A V-Day Tale of Two Cities
Do you love your guns more than you love your grandkids? Catherine O’Connor, an alert grandmother in Everett, Washington, was concerned about her grandson. He had allegedly held up a […]
Bravo: Eve Ensler and V20!
Twenty years before #MeToo, Eve Ensler broke down the silence on violence against women on V-Day, 1998 with the first production of The Vagina Monologues. It has evolved into a […]
Cubs Win! Cubs Win! Cubs Win!
My cat Bitzie thought I’d lost my damned mind last night. She doesn’t understand waiting until next year for 108 years. It takes a special kind of crazy to be […]
Bravo: Jennifer Hopper & the Angel Band Project
I got to survive so I was gonna live an extraordinary life, and you can’t live an extraordinary life when you’re angry. – Jennifer Hopper April 26 is always a […]
Endorsement: Jay Inslee for Washington State Governor
My choice for governor was far from easy. Attorney General Rob McKenna has been a staunch supporter of DV survivors, and I had fully intended to enthusiastically support his candidacy for […]
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