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The Olive Tree

GUEST POST by TOM SANTULLI The olive tree outside my door and I met in a nursery  eleven years ago.  She was seven inches tall, in a one-gallon pot. Since then, she’s outgrown pots, and lived in a garden plot for a few years. Now, [...]

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Three Cheers for Feisty Old Broads

Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day. These immortal words of Dylan Thomas are a suitable motto for Feisty Old Broads, older women who reject the stereotype of the accommodating old lady.  The FOB’s are women who are fearless in their individuality. They speak truth to power, laugh a lot, have [...]

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Debunking “Age Is Only A Number”

Birthday milestones are celebrated with fanfare until one reaches middle age and beyond when getting old carries a downside. A baby’s first birthday is a time when infancy moves into small personhood.  Becoming a teen at 13 is seen as a beginning entry into adulthood.  Other rites of passage are: obtaining a driver’s license at 16; earning [...]

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Who is the Powerful Older Woman? 

This past weekend I watched the women’s final four college basketball games.  Young, powerful athletic bodies were on full display. As I became absorbed in the games, I bemoaned the loss of my once athletic body and physical prowess in general, until my thoughts turned to a different definition of power as it applies to the older woman. [...]

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Gratitude for the Women’s Circles in My Life

I don’t want to close Women’s History month without acknowledging my history with women’s circles, to whom I owe enormous gratitude. My sister circles supported me at the major crossroads in my life. I can’t imagine my life without them. In the ‘70’s there was the circle that accompanied the birth of my first child.  David was [...]

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Missing Hearts

How is it possible for the world to ignore babies being murdered every day in Gaza, while those babies who aren’t killed are dying from starvation?  How is possible to ignore a Palestinian father who leaves home for a loaf of bread only to return to find his family was murdered in his absence? How is it possible for Israeli soldiers to [...]

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Struggling with Feeling Powerless

A dear friend bolted through my front door on Sunday morning, distraught,  blurting out,  “I have this awful knot in my stomach. Two mass shootings in 24 hours with 29 dead! If I hear one more official respond to the tune of ‘you’re in our thoughts and prayers,’ I think I’ll lose it.” I tried to console her but I was as shell-shocked [...]

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Col. Ann Wright: Peace Warrior Extraordinaire

Ann Wright is a lightening rod for peace and justice. Name a political hot spot and Ann has been there, leading one to suspect that she holds the record for frequent flyer miles on the peace and justice circuit. In the past few months alone Ann has joined in protests at Jeju Island in South Korea protesting the construction of an American [...]

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