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96 Years Ago Today My Great Aunt Voted for the First Time (and wrote about it)

November 2, 2016

One woman’s diary written on November 2, 1920, when she could vote for the first time

Categories Aunt Hattie, women 12 Comments

How Election 2016 Has Changed Me for the Better

October 27, 2016October 14, 2016

“Maybe we’ve grown accustomed to swallowing these emotions and staying quiet” ~ Michelle Obama

Categories personal growth, poetry, Private Revolution, women 4 Comments

Grandma’s Ball of String

July 28, 2016July 27, 2016

I cup my ball of string in my hands—hands that look with each passing year more and more like my grandmother’s, age spots and all—and the theory of everything slowly unfolds.

Categories Meaning, memoir, Stories, women Tags Depression era, family, grandparents, history 8 Comments

A Fifty-Something Woman

February 8, 2016February 8, 2016
George Eliot

We have choices of how to think of this time of our lives. Learning to be a fully conscious keeper of ourselves is perhaps the greatest gift of aging.

Categories Meaning, personal growth, women 4 Comments
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