Tag: history
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We are All Immigrants, Part 2
In Part 1 of this series, I talked about who immigrants are in a general way. I want to use Part 2 to talk about some immigrants I have personally known. I have had the privilege to live abroad for over five years of my adult life—one year in France as an exchange teacher and…
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Equal Rights Amendment Now
I have a friend who is active in the American Bar Association (ABA). She recently informed me that the ABA has been researching the status of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA). This blog has important information about that amendment. The ABA has analyzed the history of the ERA from its inception in 1972. They have…
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Checks and Imbalances
The government of the United States was created with three branches: legislative, executive and judicial. The legislative branch is the Congress composed of the House of Representatives and the Senate. The executive branch is led by the President who is supported by his Cabinet and various federal entities under his control. The judicial branch is…
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War: A Lose-Lose for Women and Children
This week I watched the movie 20 Days in Mariupol written and directed by Mstyslav Chernov. He headed up a team of Associated Press journalists taking daily videos in Mariupol, Ukraine during the first twenty days of the Russian siege of that town as part of Putin’s goal to take back the nation of Ukraine.…
A Piece of a Woman's Mind 