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: The Apology
“I’m sorry” are words too many survivors will sadly never hear. I never heard them. Ever. Narcissists don’t apologize. They project their guilt onto their prey. I’ve often contemplated writing […]
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 […]
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 […]
One Billion Rising: Seattle Celebrates, 2013
Although I’ve been looking forward to the celebration of One Billion Rising for JUSTICE since May, my health isn’t going to permit me to join in Seattle’s celebrations this year. […]
Justice: One Billion Rising, 2014
ONE BILLION RISING FOR JUSTICE is a global call to women survivors of violence and those who love them to come together in community and solidarity outside places where they […]
Review: In the Body of the World by Eve Ensler
You need community, and you need friends, and you need support to wake up. You cannot do it alone. – Eve Ensler In the Body of the World is Eve Ensler’s […]
Mark Twain: Explore. Dream. Discover.
V-Day was Navigating Uncharted Waters’ 4th anniversary. This inspirational Mark Twain quote which was posted on my Facebook timeline by Julie Owens seems like a great way to celebrate how […]
“Still I Rise” Poem by Maya Angelou
You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may trod me in the very dirt But still, like dust, I’ll rise. Does my sassiness upset […]
Steubenville Rape: Stand Up and Rise on February 13, 2013
In wine comes truth. We reveal our inner-self when we’ve had too much to drink. Reserved people may become playful. Jolly folks may take off their clown’s mask to reveal […]
Anne Caroline Drake 