Tag: women

  • For Richer, For Poorer II: Emotions, Money, and Marriage in America

    For Richer, For Poorer II Emotions, Money and Marriage in America Marriage Penalty crop An award-winning, nationally-syndicated personal finance columnist, Liz Pulliam Weston writes: * The median net worth of married-couple households in the latest Census Bureau wealth study, conducted in 2002, was $101,975. For single men, median wealth was $23,700. For single women, $20,217.…

  • Faith, Our Personal Best and the Work We Do…

    But I want to stay with mothers, because so often when we write we, and the world, does not take seriously what we do seriously, particularly if we choose to operate primarily as a mother, and a writer second. Those of us who choose to place our writing second do so because I think on…

  • Radio Show | The Soul of a Man: Maurice Gray, Jr. and Brian Ganges

    Authors Maurice Gray Jr. and Brian Ganges will join me in discussing their works, “Long Term” (Maurice Gray Jr.) and “Manning Up With God” (Brian Ganges) in the anthology, The Soul of a Man, published by Peace in the Storm Press and due for release in June 2009. Maurice is the author of: To Whom…

  • “Marie Delaveaux Wilson”

    Edward P. Jones’ short story, Marie, centers on eighty-six-year-old Marie Delaveaux Wilson for whom the “…federal government…every now and again, as if in a whim…” asks “…her to come in so they can take another look at her…” (p. 229) At the Social Security office, and punctual for her eleven am appointment Marie waits until…

  • “Marie Delaveaux Wilson”

    Edward P. Jones’ short story, Marie, centers on eighty-six-year-old Marie Delaveaux Wilson for whom the “…federal government…every now and again, as if in a whim…” asks “…her to come in so they can take another look at her…” (p. 229) At the Social Security office, and punctual for her eleven am appointment Marie waits until…