By Teresa Schreiber Werth   I’m praying for women I’ve never met. As I lay down and close my eyes, names tumble into my consciousness Like cottonwood seeds, descending from a quiet, summer sky. Each day I’m touched as the tangled threads of our lives entwine. A daughter of a friend, a mother, a neighbor’s…

It is so damn easy to feel depressed, frustrated and disillusioned right now. In light of the widespread oppression, manipulation, intimidation that surrounds us today, we most certainly need to say something. There are signs everywhere in the subways of New York City that say, “If you see something, say something.” We Queens see quite…

Despite the rude awakenings, the unsettling physical and emotional chaos of midlife and all of its frightful, presumed ramifications, an amazing number of women find this stage to be the most personally fulfilling and satisfying of their lives so far. A recent Gallup survey of women aged fifty to sixty-five revealed that fifty-one percent of…

Just a few days ago I wrote, “The word ‘practice’ also serves to remind us that there is no perfect. Whether we maintain a spiritual practice, a creative practice or a professional practice, we are always in the process of learning, adapting, accommodating, growing and changing. The only end comes when we die. In the…

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