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Tag: women

  • The Ones that Count

    Throughout history there is a divide between the named and the numbered—the people publicly acknowledged and remembered by name, and the faceless masses of women and workers that do a lot of the effort, but are willfully ignored. We see evidence of this all around us. There are streets and schools in nearly every American…

  • Sales 2

    A couple of weeks, I wrote about struggling through my week with several days with no sales. I now can understand a little how realtors feel by going to lots of open houses or car sales people feel after going on lots of test drives. The good news is that I did make a substantial…

  • Surprised by Friendship

    I have observed a trend of people shedding friends that don’t “tick all the boxes.” The boxes being someone who is dependable, loyal, trustworthy, accepting etc. I get the impulse, why keep people around who aren’t serving your needs or draining your resources?  The problem is that as an adult, deep friendships are hard to…

  • Simple Pasta Recipe

    The first time I made pasta from scratch was when I was probably around twenty one. I was home at my parent’s house from college. I don’t remember the exact circumstances, but my mom was out for the evening.  The sky was starting to turn dark and my Dad wandered in to the kitchen with…

  • Letter to The Men

    To my brothers, uncles, cousins, nephews, former bosses, colleagues, former students of voting age and friends, Please, please cast vote for Kamala Harris this week at the polls. I know it’s unusual for me to draw a such strong line in the sand, but I feel like this election requires it. In 2016, I assumed…

  • Vote for Life

    If you want to see less abortions in America, then I suggest that you vote for Kamala Harris this November. I know that this may seem counterintuitive, but the number of abortions actually goes down when Democrats are in office.* The reason is that it is not the lack of availability of safe abortions that…

  • Faux Pas

    I thoroughly enjoyed the Olympics this year. One of my favorite parts about the games was the diversity of people participating and the variety of activities.  What I want to talk about is one of the controversies of this year’s Olympics. Not that controversy, I did not watch the opening ceremonies. Instead, I want…

  • The Other Other

    If I told you, “There is somebody at the front door,” Could you tell me what they looked like if my description did not include anything other than what I said already? Probably. You could go by my lack of description and rattle off all the “normal” things. First, we assume that it’s a man,…

  • The Measure of a Man

    According to JD Vance’s book Hillbilly Elegy, is how he treats the women in his life. I was impressed with the sentiment, until I heard him speak disparagingly of childless cat ladies in the public sphere. His audiobook that I just listened to him narrate, is all about the struggles of his grandmother, mom and…

  • Emotional Gifts

    This morning, I read a string on the internet of people talking about the emotional weight that women carry in families. One of the examples I read was wives sending Mother’s Day cards to their mothers-in-law for their husbands to help carry their relationship. Some were kind of sad, but I have a good story.…