THANKGIVING ODYSSEY Liveblog#5: Dinner with Mommie
November 28, 2008 by Patricia Yarberry Allen

Click here for installments number one, two, three, and four of this chronicle by WVFC publisher Patricia Yarberry-Allen, writing of her travels home for a major family Thanksgiving. (Ed.)
Mommie expected [...]
Read More »THANKSGIVING ODYSSEY: Liveblog Number Four
November 28, 2008 by Patricia Yarberry Allen

I woke on Thanksgiving Day at 4am with a terrible sense of things all gone wrong. I was in my mother’s home and she was in a nursing home. [...]
Read More »The Holidays and Grief: From Dr. Cecilia Ford
November 28, 2008 by Dr. Cecilia Ford

All of us will be greeted with the phrase “Happy Holidays” sometime soon, if we haven’t been already. But I realized long ago that in my profession, this is [...]
Read More »Thanksgiving then, and even before then, and now
November 27, 2008 by Elizabeth Hemmerdinger

By Elizabeth Hemmerdinger
I've always thrown myself into Thanksgiving. You can see in the photo below, from my turn as a Pilgrim in the 1956 sixth grade pageant at [...]
Thanksgiving Odyssey Liveblog #3: The Tale of a Turkey and the Trimmings
November 26, 2008 by Patricia Yarberry Allen

(Third installment in Dr. Patricia Yarberry's ongoing chronicle of her life-changing holiday trip home — a trip born of change and time, and evoking far more. )
I am travelling [...]
Read More »THANKSGIVING ODYSSEY Liveblog: Part Two
November 26, 2008 by Patricia Yarberry Allen

Second of a series by WVFC publisher Patricia Yarberry Allen, as she chronicles a singular Thanksgiving.
It is 9 a.m.and we are in a snow storm. Snow is covering the [...]
THANKSGIVING ODYSSEY 2008: Liveblog Part One
November 26, 2008 by Patricia Yarberry Allen

Editor's note: This is the first in a series by Patricia Yarberry Allen, WVFC's publisher, as she drives south on an unexpected journey home for Thanksgiving.
Road trips across the American [...]
Read More »Newsbrief: Nicole Kidman At UN Today; Romer To School New President on The Next Depression
November 25, 2008 by Women's Voices For Change
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Did you know today is International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women? We didn't – though WVFC has long been watching "Say No to Violence" campaign, headlined [...]
Read More »Giving Thanks in My Milestone Year, and Ours
November 24, 2008 by Laura Baudo Sillerman

by Laura Sillerman
There are times when to state the obvious is the natural course of grace and gratitude. This Thanksgiving is one of those times. I am deeply grateful [...]
National Book Award A Coup for WVFC’s Faith Childs; More Power Women in New Administration; Keeping Up with the Joneses
November 21, 2008 by Faith Childs

Most WVFC readers likely know Faith Childs from her essays here, ranging from deeply serious (her elegies for for Benazir Bhutto and Paul Newman, her frank discussion of everyday [...]
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