Have you ever wanted something SO much you were willing to wait however long it took? Well, Keiko Fukuda waited almost 80 years to realizing her dream. At the age of 98 Keiko Fukuda became the first woman to achieve a tenth-degree black belt in Judo. The petite woman not quite five feet tall has [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘acceptance’
August 10, 2011
Israeli and Palestinian Women Are Proof Life is a Beach
Incivility is on the rise according to the American Psychological Association. At their recent annual meeting the APA focused on incivility in the workplace. The professional organization said that rudeness, insults and plain old bad manners are growing problems for Americans. Incivility stresses workers and reduces productivity. Sometimes the problem is simply the result of [...]
July 26, 2011
Music Keeps These Ladies Young
These Russian gals, mostly in their 70s and 80s, are singing their way through life. And, now they’re getting applause for their resiliency and joyous approach to life’s challenges. The women known on the Internet as the Buranova Babuskas made it to the recent finals of the Russian Eurovision music contest. The annual Eurovision competition, [...]
July 20, 2011
She’d Like to Drive Men
Princess Ameerah Al-Taweel doesn’t want to drive men mad. She does, however, want to be able to drive a car. She is not alone. No Saudi Arabia woman has the legal right to drive a car. Ameerah who is in her late 20s in the fourth wife of Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, the [...]
May 24, 2011
Women’s Work on the Front Lines of Afghanistan
U.S. Marines are undertaking an experiment in Afghanistan. They are embracing the power of women’s work. A few women have been added to what used to be all-male patrols − patrols on the front lines. Although the women wear body armor (which can be cumbersome and cause discomfort and chaffing because it wasn’t designed to [...]
May 11, 2011
It Took 35 Years for This Woman to Rediscover Her Voice
Who hasn’t had a moment when they felt like yelling? What if you couldn’t? What if you weren’t able to say anything? Those among us who are able-bodied often take our abilities for granted. Jan Christian hasn’t taken the power of her voice for granted for a long time. She recently found hers after a [...]
April 27, 2011
Becca Stevens Changes Lives:Beauty Products with a Social Purpose
Becca Stevens looks the part of a beauty product entrepreneur. Stevens created a natural bath and body products business advertised as good for the Earth as well as the body. Becca, an Episcopal priest, established the business to benefit the women who make the Thistle Farms products. The women who work at Thistle Farms are [...]
March 17, 2011
Salute the Ladies
“It is on the record that women can fly as well as men,” the commanding general of the U.S. Army Air Forces, Henry “Hap” Arnold said in 1944. Despite his verbal recognition of women’s skills, it took more than 30 years for the work of the Women Air Force Service Pilots to be recognized by [...]
October 14, 2010
It’ll Get Better. Don’t Let the Bastards Win!
It’s hard to pick up a newspaper (yes, some people still read the morning news in print form) or listen to the news these days without hearing stories related to gay rights. The saddest stories involve the death of tormented youth such as 18-year-old violinist and Rutger’s freshman Tyler Clementi Clementi who jumped from the [...]
September 27, 2010
Divorce, ALS, Can’t Keep This Woman Down. She Gifts Others as They Gift Her.
It’s difficult to keep this woman down. Faith, family, and an indomitable spirit are her strongest weapons against adversity; and Karen Storek has known a few. In the 1980s Karen Storek moved her sons, aged 3 and 5, and her Bassett hound out of the home she shared with her husband at the time. “It [...]
