The Dixie Chicks – “Taking the Long Way”

I was just home in Texas for my sister’s wedding and it really got me thinking. The wedding was, on paper, so conformist, so unempowering, so not feminist in so many ways. Taking his last name. Being “presented” by one man who “gave her away” to another. Such a...

Wild Woman Check in #3: Love. Yo. Self

This weekend I had the great honor to participate in a happening in the park organized by WILD Woman Circle Leader, Television Producer, Yogini, mischief maker, Melissa Tamura Maugeri called Gratitude in the Park. Strangers passed by and wrote notes of love and...

“JUST FINE” by Mary J. Blige

What you see when you look in the mirror. When you look in your heart. At your soul. At your work. At your life. And your friends and your love and your community. That thing you see? It is only what you make it. To quote Shakespeare, “there’s nothing good or...