Celebrating 15 Years of V-Days!
She’s called V now. In 2009, I launched my humble blog on V-Day to honor Eve Ensler’s global quest to end violence against women. I never dreamed that V-Day would morph into […]
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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 […]
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 […]
#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 […]
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 […]
Celebrating Navigating Uncharted Waters’ 7th Anniversary
Happy V-Day, y’all! How did you celebrate? Shannon Wilson and I went on a whirlwind two-day bucket list trip to the Oregon coast. My love for the Oregon coast began […]
Happy V-Day: Celebrating Navigating Uncharted Waters’ 6th Anniversary!
We all need healthy love in our lives to thrive and find joy. Yet, abuse survivors are conditioned to confuse abuse with love. We don’t recognize healthy love when it […]
Yippee, Skippy! Over a Half-Million Visitors to Navigating Uncharted Waters!
The neighborhood [in Scranton, PA] Bobby [Casey] and I were raised in. . . if a man raised his hand to a woman, you had the job to kick the […]
Inspiring Change: One Billion Rising on V-Day to No More on St. Pat’s
Five years ago on V-Day, 2009, I launched Navigating Uncharted Waters to inspire change. I hoped to inspire abuse survivors to break down the walls of silence and to shift […]
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. […]
Anne Caroline Drake 