Level: Community   —   Pillar: Women’s Health and Well-being
This week’s featured story came in from Washington, DC :
During a recent weekend visit to my childhood home I took some time to sort through a box of old books and diaries. In the process, I stumbled across the loose-leaf notebook that was my diary when I was 15 years old. Pages upon pages were filled with the highlights of summer adventures, rants about my teenage sense of injustice, and most of all, lengthy descriptions of my first boyfriend and our relationship. Fifteen …

The International Day of Peace is also declared a day of international ceasefire. I’m not sure how many armies, militias, armed factions, militants, terrorists, or other combatants are observing an actual ceasefire – I doubt that the numbers are high. However, all of us are fighting something, or someone – within ourselves or externally. We are busy doing battle somehow – with a disease, with a loved one, with our weight, with an institution that has treated us poorly (have you tried to get customer service over the phone lately?), …

>Have you ever asked for something timidly, after waiting a long time, and had the door fly open so fast it knocked your socks off? And you wondered why on earth it took you so long, and resolved to speak up sooner the next time? (And then didn’t, maybe?)
Western women of my generation are more likely to plead guilty than younger women, who frequently wow and delight me with their assertiveness. Different cultures and eras sanction different degrees of directness. Still, it seems women everywhere have a harder time than …

“What the world needs now is love sweet love”…and listening and learning.
WISDOM (Womens Interfaith Solutions for Dialogue and Outreach of MetroDetroit) is a diverse group of women who meet, share our stories, appreciate our differences, and work for good. Begun after 9-11 by four women from different faiths, this group comes together to listen with open minds and to serve with willing hands. We respect each others’ beliefs without trying to change them. We dispel fear by becoming friends. Last year we (Catholics, Protestants, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists, Sikhs, Baha’is) joined …