Sen. Scott Brown: Against All Odds
Bring it on. – Sen. Scott Brown Sen. Scott Brown (R-MA) won the late Sen. Ted Kennedy’s seat on January 19, 2010. He pledged to vote against the health care legislation Sen. Kennedy had worked […]
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Book Review: Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy
. . .this story is not primarily about spies and secret government agencies; it’s about violence against women, and the men who enable it. – Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who […]
J2J Day 10: Iyanla Vanzant on Oprah
I was on Oprah today. OK. Blink. You missed me. Several times. I was in the audience for almost all of Iyanla Vanzant’s twenty-two appearances on Oprah. I vividly recall the Maundy […]
Happy V-Day: Navigating Uncharted Waters Celebrates Its Second Anniversary
Thank you for believing with me in this vision that women can be free and empowered and safe. – Eve Ensler Two years ago today I launched Navigating Uncharted Waters […]
J2J Day 9: Intention
Lakeshore Drive in Chicago was impassable last night due to a record-setting blizzard. The Weather Channel is reporting thunder snow. We have sunshine in Seattle. It is time for me to […]
Sela Ann Ward: Founder of Hope Village
Sela Ward is the quintessential Southern belle. She and her husband Howard Sherman founded Hope Village in her home town of Meridian, Mississippi to give a real home to abused, abandoned, and neglected […]
Happy Birthday, Jane Fonda: 73 and Fabulous!
Jane Fonda is celebrating her 73rd birthday today (December 21). Her parents named her Lady Jayne Seymour Fonda after an ancestor who was the third wife of Henry VIII. She’s just […]
Power of Love vs. Love of Power
We will have peace in the world when the power of love is greater than the love of power. Wishing everyone happy holidays and an abundance of love, peace, harmony, […]
Survive, Thrive, Joy 101: Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs is the most important concept I learned during almost a decade of university education. It’s basic. It’s profound. It brilliantly distills complex intellectual theory into something anyone […]
Saving Promise Comes to Seattle
Ginny Nicarthy, author of Getting Free: You Can End Abuse and Take Back Your Life and You can Be Free: An Easy-to-Read Handbook for Abused Women, kicked off L.Y. Marlow’s Saving Promise 10-city […]
Anne Caroline Drake 