Women have been taught not to scream lest we be discounted as “hysterical”… and so the strength of our voices, and of our fury, has been denigrated and eliminated from public discourse.
Apples
Like the medieval desert mendicants, holy men who lived their lives in remote caves and were sometimes fed by ravens, Will had long ago lost any interest in possessions, or any taste for food.
Will Walking Away
What is it about our world that destroys our young men?
From Dream to Reality
It is finished after almost two years of work, with many changes—some of them drastic, others simply disappointing—along the way.
Single Blessedness
My self is precious, and it needs and deserves nourishing as the center of my life, not an outcropping.
Indian Market: When We Are All Together
Through all these years of turmoil and change, the Santa Fe Indian Market has persisted.
Do Right Woman: Aretha Franklin
No one can appreciate the depth of Aretha Franklin’s influence as clearly as women, like me, who came of age in the Feminist Movement in the late 1960’s.
The Fire This Time
Burning to prevent burning produces unwelcome results… even in the face of wildfires, we may do our forests a favor by leaving them alone.
Basket
My friend Katie is a Cassandra, cursed by the god to know and speak prophesies that no one would believe… Her mission is the end of the world.
Girl 27
Patricia Douglas was “Girl 27” on a long list of young extras who were invited to an MGM party in Hollywood, in 1937, under the guise of a casting shoot for a movie.