One of my most cherished heroes died yesterday: Professor Howard Zinn. I feel such a sense of loss over his passing and, at the same time, feel grateful that I got to be alive for a good long time while he was. I so wanted to meet him in person. The way I’ll honor his [...]
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I forgot to mention in my earlier post the study published by the National Institutes of Health in 1999 about the nearly 100,000 fatalities in the U. S. that happen every year because of medical mistakes. According to the report, “the panel found that more than 7000 Americans died each year as a result of [...] Is it just Tennessee, or have boards of education across the country decided that it is no longer important for kids to learn how to write (and read) cursive? I was in primary school in the late 1940s and knew how to read and write cursive very well by age nine. No one then thought [...] |
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 Learn about the Safe Motherhood Quilt, which honors women who have died of pregnancy-related causes. Here is a replica from a statue that is venerated at the Shrine of Our Lady of La Leche, St. Augustine, Florida:
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