My 1000 Small Steps

Who Can We Be

Who can we be as we look toward 2021? 2020 is a year that will forever live in our memories – a pandemic, a tumultuous election, horrendous wild fires, devastation of our economy, the fight for racial justice, the climate crisis, and the deaths of two inspirational leaders – John Lewis…

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The Power of Small Steps

The outcome of the 2016 presidential election inspired me to launch the project My 1000 Small Steps, so the results of the presidential election on November 3, 2020 would not leave me and millions of other Americans with the same feelings of disbelief, despair, and doom we experienced in 2016. Although we didn’t…

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Embracing Uncertainty

Election Day, November 3, 2020, is exactly two weeks from the date of this post! Can we embrace this day with hope? “Hope is an embrace of the unknown!” That’s the perspective of Rebecca Solnit, a feminist writer whose words seem so appropriate today. She says that though we are living through times of…

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In Memoriam Ruth Bader Ginsberg 1933-2020

by Kathie England “She changed the world for American women.” Those were the words Nina Totenberg, legal affairs correspondent for NPR, used to begin her tribute to Ruth Bader Ginsberg on the morning after her death. Few people have had greater impact on the lives of so many than Ruth…

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The Vote

“The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.” These are the words of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. This year marks the 100th commemoration of this amendment. After a…

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Changing the Narrative

This month’s post is dedicated to the memory of John Lewis, the civil rights hero who died on July 17, 2020. Few people have more powerfully changed their narrative than John Lewis. Prior to Lewis’s death, I had already selected the topic for this month, Changing the Narrative. I selected this topic after…

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