Book Review: The Tattooist of Auschwitz
Would you have survived the Holocaust? This is the central question in Heather Morris’ The Tattooist of Auschwitz. I’m fairly certain I would have wanted the SS troopers to just […]
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Book Review: My Own Words
International Women’s Day seems like a great time to celebrate women who blazed the legal eagle trail. I was delighted to read about them in Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s My Own […]
#Never Again: Parkland
As we celebrate V-Day, we also mourn the wonderful people who were shot and killed during a shooting rampage at Stoneman Douglas High School a year ago today. #NeverAgain We […]
Happy V-Day! It’s Navigating Uncharted Waters’ 10th Anniversary!
When I launched Navigating Uncharted Waters 10 years ago, I never dreamed people from all over the world would visit and subscribe. I never dreamed my posts would be picked […]
Book Review: Betty Ford
Betty Ford had the soul of a dancer. Her refreshing and courageous candor broke down the walls of silence surrounding breast cancer and addiction. She tirelessly championed the Equal Rights […]
Code Words: “Thoughts and Prayers”
I don’t want prayers. I don’t want thoughts. I want gun control. – Susan Orfanos When I heard this grief-stricken plea from the mother of Telemachus Orfanos on the news […]
Barrow Institute: Brain Injury Treatment for DV Survivors
Maria Shriver’s Today Show report on the Barrow Neurological Institute’s program for domestic violence survivors with traumatic brain injuries blew me away. It is the first and only program in […]
Book Review: Between You & Me
Shunning. The fear of ostracism is a powerful instrument of control and the common denominator in the lives of Caleb Stoltz and Dr. Reese Powell. Susan Wiggs brilliantly weaves together […]
Movie Review: The Book Club
In 1974, four women launched their book club by reading Erica Jong’s Fear of Flying. Forty years later the quartet improbably still meets every month. Why improbably? Sharon (Candice Bergen) […]
Honoring MLK, Jr.
The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King’s light was snuffed out by an assassin’s bullet 50 years ago today. Yet, his inspiring words live on. These quotes are anchors of wisdom […]
