On Sunday March 23rd, an annual event called Women in Focus was held at the Court Square Theater. Each year the event focuses on women in some aspect. This year they concentrated on female caregivers such as women who care for their aging parents. Alzheimer’s disease runs in my mother’s side of the family. Both […]
Read More Take Care of Our Caretakers!I grew up in a less typical American household, where my mother was the primary breadwinner. Working days and nights on end as a midwife, my mother pushed through sleepless days just to make it to school events, drive our family around, or sort through endless loads of laundry. Though, there were also many times when […]
Read More Super Moms: Having it allHello world! Cheers to you and cheers to my first blog post on JMU Shout Out! I have been brainstorming what I should post for my first post for a while until this happened and I knew I had to write about it. It was something I had never encountered before and it left me […]
Read More Business Or Pleasure?Earlier this semester, for a class assignment, I had to read a speech that Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote and gave. The speech was about being a woman, and more importantly, being a woman of color, and what that meant for her career and her goals. And since I read that speech, I’ve been […]
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