Behind the Masks
The airport is a wonderful place to people watch. I was recently delayed at an airport for about three hours with my husband as we traveled home. We walked all…
How to Crochet a Coral Reef
It started with an idea. A problem really. One with no easy solution. So what do you do? You get creative. The problem? A growing number of coral reefs around…
Recipe: Amish Friendship Bread
The idea of friendship breads which draw the rising agent from the environment and then continue to growas they’re nurtured and shared goes so well with November’s tenet, “We believe…
Currents November 2020
The holiday season is upon us. This year has both sped by and dragged on. Everyone has felt some sort of change in their lives either directly or indirectly from…
Meet Big Ocean: Holly Sweeten
Greetings to my lovely friends and members of Big Ocean Women! My name is Holly Sweeten and I’ve been asked to take this wonderful opportunity to tell you about myself…
In My Own Little Corner, In My Own Little Chair
This is the title of one of my favorite songs from the Rogers and Hammerstein Broadway musical Cinderella. In this song, Cinderella muses that she can “be whatever she wants…
Giving Girls Dignity Nigeria
I met Dr. Ugochi Ohajuruka the first time I went to the U.N. Commission on the Status of Women in 2017. As I filmed her, I was so taken by…
A Note on Loss
In the last couple of years I have written and received too many condolence letters. And I wonder about them, these artifacts of sorrow and grief, inscribed with a litany…