June 17, 2013
Brides Across America is featured in the current issue of People Magazine this week with an awesome piece about the non-profit organization, based in Georgetown, MA, founded by Heidi Janson.
As People Magazine reports: (more…)
April 29, 2013
Today, I re-mind myself that the reward is often worth the struggle. Even when it seems I toil for no results, in time the tree will bear the fruit. The catch will be abundant ~ Pamela J. Leavey
Photo: Great Black-backed Gull with Small Flounder on the Beach ~ © Pamela J. Leavey 2013
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October 26, 2012
Baby boomer aged women, including myself are struggling more in the recession than others, NBC News Economy Watch reports:
A generation of women who flooded the paid labor force in the 1970s has spent the past four decades overcoming a host of obstacles to win its fair share of the American economic pie.
But for many women now approaching what was to have been the end of their careers, the Great Recession has turned out to be the biggest obstacle of their lives.
The recession has been particularly hard for single boomer women like myself:
Incomes for single boomer women have lagged even further behind other households. Since 1970, median incomes for married couples with both spouses in the paid work force have risen steadily – up more than 40 percent to nearly $86,000 (as of 2009). One-income couples and households headed by single men saw little improvement, with median incomes rising to less than $50,000. For single women, the median income, after rising slowly since 1970, barely hit $29,000 in 2009.
While both candidates are working hard and heavy to court the woman’s vote, I personally believe that the candidate that will deliver more for women, including income equality, jobs, education, the right to choice, privacy and health care, is Barack Obama.
Mitt Romney will turn back the clock on women’s issues, and we boomer women can’t afford to go back to the 50’s.
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June 17, 2011
J. Krishnamurti…
Most of us spend our life in effort, in struggle; and the effort, the struggle, the striving, is a dissipation of that energy. Man, throughout the historical period of man, has said that to find that reality or God- whatever name he may give to it- you must be celibate; that is, you take a vow of chastity and suppress, control, battle with yourself endlessly all your life, to keep your vow. Look at the waste of energy! It is also a waste of energy to indulge. And it has far more significance when you suppress. The effort that has gone into suppression, into control, into this denial of your desire distorts your mind, and through that distortion you have a certain sense of austerity which becomes harsh. Please listen. Observe it in yourself and observe the people around you. And observe this waste of energy, the battle. Not the implications of sex, not the actual act, but the ideals, the images, the pleasure;the constant thought about them is a waste of energy. And most people waste their energy either through denial, or through a vow of chastity, or in thinking about it endlessly. ~~ The Book of Life
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May 31, 2011
I re-mind myself everyday that my life is full of blessings. Even in the midst of toughest day, the process of re-minding myself, can lighten the struggle. I know that remembering my blessings everyday is a practice and in practice we find knowledge.
(Photo & Quote © Pamela J. Leavey 2011)
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February 10, 2011
We all struggle with moments of self doubt, in those times it is so important to remember:
To believe in yourself is the first step to achieving your dreams. I affirm this belief everyday. ~~ Pamela J. Leavey
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