Archive for the ‘Women's issues’ Category
11.3.08
I had no intention of writing about the presidential election here on my happy mommy book blog. Then my pastor had to go and preach a fabulous, hit-it-out-of-the-park sermon about Christian citizenship last Sunday. I sat in the pew, muttering to myself.
Drat. Now I have to be a political blogger ...
Posted in Believing, Thinking, Women's issues | 26 Comments »
10.2.08
Monique and the Mango Rains (Two Years with a Midwife in Mali) is a memoir of Holloways' experience as a Peace Corp volunteer in Mali, where she befriended midwife Monique Dembele.
From the backcover:
Monique Dembele saved lives and dispensed hope in a place where childbirth is a life-and-death matter. This book ...
Posted in Women's issues, reading | No Comments »
9.21.08
Call + Response, a movie addressing the human sex slavery problem, is coming out soon. It's not going to be showing any where near my little Jersey town, but if you live in a large city, it may be available to you. I encourage you to check it out. (I ...
Posted in Women's issues | 2 Comments »
9.18.08
The kind folks at WaterBrook Press sent me a copy of The Road of Lost Innocence (The True Story of a Cambodian Heroine) by Somaly Mam. From my point of view, this book has three things going for it - it's written by a woman, it's a memoir, and it ...
Posted in Women's issues, reading | 2 Comments »
8.12.08
So many emotions as I read If I Am Missing or Dead (A Sister's Story of Love, Murder and Liberation) by Janine Latus. Anger, sadness, disbelief.
And as I read, a haunting ghost came from my past.
A woman I knew when I worked at a Christian bookstore. Me a college co-ed. ...
Posted in Women's issues, Writing, reading | 7 Comments »
7.1.08
It's Topic Day at New Jersey Moms Blog and today we're sharing birth and adoption stories. I love the picture they slapped on my submission - big baby belly, sexy bra and string bikini panties. Ha. Yup, that's me alright. My birth story compares my first time vs. my second ...
Posted in New Jersey Moms Blog, Women's issues | 5 Comments »
6.30.08
This book was a must read as soon as I saw the cover. I'm crazy for memoirs, especially stories of women living overseas in a Muslim culture. Kabul Beauty School is the story of how Deborah Rodriguez, a hair dresser from Michigan, started a beauty school for Afghan women in ...
Posted in Women's issues, reading | 6 Comments »
