Sometime around this past February, after the publication of Sofi’s Short Stories, I was approached about being interviewed for a phenomenal podcast, r(E)volutionary Woman. That episode aired today! Tes Silverman is the artist behind the scenes and founder of r(E)volutionary Woman. She interviews women from around the world to ask them about the amazing things…
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Nancy Sumari: Woman Extraordinaire
Women’s History Month is coming to an end, and we are continuing our Phenomenal Women Series with power! We will continue showcasing women even after March is over, because there is so much to celebrate, acknowledge, and be inspired by! For this post I interviewed none other than Nancy Sumari. I thank you, Mama Zuri, for…
Outcasts, Refugees, & Giving Thanks
I just came across this again. It must be time to post it. Some events are no longer current, but the point is still the same. On November 26, 2015, here in the USA there was a celebration. It is called Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving is celebrated by many Americans as a day when the ‘Injuns and…
Reunited in Tanzania
This past June, I packed my husband and two younger kids and shipped us all off to Tanzania. I’m joking. They actually had a choice to come. Well, my husband did (smile). Tanzania is my birth country and although I have lived elsewhere, I still call it my home. The last time I was there was…
Living the Dream
Maybe our true dream is a part of a collective dream, which if we all work on remembering, then we’d all have our dream come true.
Ma’Hood: A Mother’s Story of Maternal Care
For the next two weeks a little organization named CleanBirth.org is making a huge difference in the lives of many people. In fact, it isn’t only now that it’s doing so. CleanBirth.org raises funds throughout the year to ensure that many pregnant women in Laos can have safe births through the use of clean-birth kits and properly…
I Love the Whole Pound of You
The Intensive Care Unit (ICU) is one of those places that are completely surreal to me. My son had to be in ICU for six days, and it was the first time I had been in this angel-filled part of a hospital. I saw signs showing how long a little…tiny little baby had been in…
Where’s My Cave? (Follow up to my When Mister Shankar…. post)
Woman Cave. Wo-man cave. It still sounds strange for me to say it because I am so unused to hearing it. What I have often heard, however, is man cave. Why is it? I spoke with a guy about this. He said a man’s cave doesn’t have to be a location like a den, it…
My Son’s Miracle Heart
It is the day before getting discharged from the hospital where my son was born. A RN nurse comes in, checks my boy with a sthetoscope, and says she hears a heart murmur. A doctor comes and dismisses it as a breathing pattern. Another RN comes, listens to my baby boy’s heart and says…
Captivatingly You Photography
Captivatingly You. Why this name? Why choose a word that some have considered too hard for others to remember (captivatingLY)? Because every person, animal, plant, …. Every thing I have photographed, when caught in the perfect moment is absolutely captivating! The eye of the lens and a person’s eye play a game or dance together…
Daily Prompt: But No Cigar …. No Good Stance…& No Longer a Chance.
Yes! Another great prompt from WordPress to release the writer in me; she who hides from sunlight that IS liberation enwrapped in writing! This daily prompt is about the experience of coming really close to something, and it unraveling, at the very end. It’s about the stories that can be summed up as ‘Almost’. Some say…
Think Say Be 