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What gets us in trouble is the unexamined belief that various holidays and other special dates are magic time containers of our shared values: Just add water (in the form of perfectly timed and elaborate preparations) and mix.
Malala Yousafzai and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova of Pussy Riot were the top two spots on CNN’s list of the 10 women who shaped 2013. Also this week, abortion rights protestors were beaten by police in Spain.
The Judean desert was full of perils and hardship for a 9-month pregnant Jewish woman struggling to reach Bethlehem for the Roman census. We follow that same female trek of endurance in our watch over Syrian refugees in Jordan, U.S. women in maternity wards.
A medieval song about the slaughter of innocents jumps the human time gap and strikes with potent, emotional force this year. Some of us who don’t pray can find consolation in a bright-spot filtering through otherwise dark news.
Each U.S. first lady brought her own touch and philosophy when decorating the White House at Christmas time. In this excerpt from “Christmas With the First Ladies,” Coleen Christian Burke looks at Michelle Obama’s approach in 2009.
In New York City, a food vendor celebrates her 20th Christmas without the documentation she needs to visit family back in Mexico. To her, the warm rice and hot tamales that she cooks and sells preserve the cultural connection every day.
It was suddenly time to get ready for the office holiday party. Nothing was ready and the mood on the streets was bleak. Smack in the middle of all that, Rita Henley Jensen stumbled into the holiday spirit. Here’s how it happened.
This year Women’s eNews’ Editor in Chief Rita Henley Jensen didn’t get to hear the usual seasonal music that helps summon her holiday spirit. Instead, a family emergency helped her hear it in the voices of her grandchildren.
Female farmers are seeking advice from an agricultural organization that helps them succeed in a male-dominated field. One woman who was told she couldn’t do it 30 years ago is plucking her Thanksgiving turkeys.