Category Archives: The Way Life Is

My International Women’s Day

Posted on March 25, 2019 by

I wrote this piece on March 08, 2017 and feel it’s worthy of inclusion in my Women’s History Month this year. I hope you agree. Spring, 2017 will be the year I move on to my 71st birthday. I know, … Continue reading →

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sheroes on sheroes: Congresswomen Ayanna Pressley and Shirley Chisholm

Posted on March 19, 2019 by

Much has been said about the new look of Congress as the halls of our nation’s highest legislative chambers began to swarm with new members who were  sworn in and trying to find their offices during the first week of … Continue reading →

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wonder women – southern style (part II)

Posted on March 15, 2019 by

A politician/philanthropist from Faith, North Carolina who settled in Charleston; an attorney who moved to Columbia from Key West, Florida; a midlands YWCA executive director from Detroit, Michigan — three women whose different, yet similar, stories were chronicled in Southern … Continue reading →

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wonder women – southern style (Part I)

Posted on March 12, 2019 by

Don’t get me wrong. The men whose stories were included in Southern Perspectives on the Queer Movement: Committed to Home are just as important as these women I celebrate today, but it is Women’s History Month after all. As I wrote … Continue reading →

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on International Women’s Day, I salute Pretty

Posted on March 8, 2019 by

“I knew I was a lesbian, and I also knew I wouldn’t disguise who I was, because to do so would send the message to my son Drew there was something wrong with it. If I didn’t name it, if … Continue reading →

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the 21 club

Posted on March 6, 2019 by

Although South Carolina has been my home state for nearly 50 years, I was born and grew up in Texas. During one of my countless classic goodbye scenes with my parents in my early twenties, daddy quoted one of his … Continue reading →

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beam me up, scottie – it’s Women’s History Month!

Posted on March 4, 2019 by

Last night I took a trip in time travel with Stephanie Rule who narrated a documentary called On the Basis of Sex which looked at the people, places and events that shaped the American woman’s odyssey to become an equal citizen … Continue reading →

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red rants and raves over lady gaga and the president’s fixer

Posted on February 27, 2019 by

Oh my, oh my. Sometimes I long for the wit and wisdom of The Red Man who, sadly, left Pretty and me three years ago this month at the ripe old age of 14. Red, our rescued Welsh terrier who … Continue reading →

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the battle my grandmother lost

Posted on February 19, 2019 by

my early years in my hometown of rural Richards, Texas (circa 1949)   my dad and me at a family picnic in matching shirts made by my grandmother (circa 1951)   a birthday party dress made by my grandmother (circa … Continue reading →

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hi-yo silver AWAY!

Posted on February 13, 2019 by

And I’m not just talking horses here. The 2020 presidential election is off and running with a posse of candidates already declared for the Democratic primaries – a group marked by the conspicuous absence of silver hair. No more “old, … Continue reading →

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