“There is no good answer to being a woman,” writes Rebecca Solnit in a recent essay. (“The Mother of All Questions,” by Rebecca Solnit, Harpers’, October 2015, pg. 5) Expanding on that thought she explains, a mother is under the gaze of society’s judgment. Too much or too

Science has finally answered a woman’s age old question: Why do men exist?  (Click)  Apparently, nature opted for variation rather than replication and so the “X” chromosome gained the potential to become a “Y” chromosome, introducing competition.  An amoeba, dividing end

Tonight is Halloween so it’s time for a scary tale. But this one isn’t about ghosts and goblins.  It’s a tale far more horrible.  It’s about a feminine myth that has kept women from reaching their full potential.   We start with Hysteria, the Greek word for muse.  Literal

In 1897 Father Damien, a Belgian, arrived at the leper colony in Molokai, Hawaii to minister to the sick. In 1884 he altered his Sunday sermon by beginning, not with his usual salutation, “You lepers…” but with a new one: “We lepers.” I remember weeping years ago when I came