Meet Oni Hiaru

Meet Oni Hiaru

I thought some of my readers might like to meet Oni Hiaru, a Carib medicine woman who is a major character in my trilogy, The Jacinta Joseph Caribbean Adventures. Oni is a wise woman. In this excerpt, Oni is talking to my detective Jacinta “JJ” Joseph. As...
What does the future look like for women?

What does the future look like for women?

I wrote a novel called Millennium 3. The genesis of the novel was a question: I wondered what our world would look like if it followed the principles of the Bahá’í Faith, one of which is the equality of women and men. What if The Golden Rule pervaded every...
Thought-provoking Interviews on Feminism

Thought-provoking Interviews on Feminism

Emma Watson and Caitlin Moran have produced a series of short videos that discuss the history and current status of women in the world. Great stuff! Emma Watson is a British actress (Harry Potter) who is the UN Women’s Ambassador. Caitlin Moran is a British...

Meryl Streep Talks about Feminine Firsts

At the Democratic National Convention, Meryl Streep gave a short, but inspiring, talk on the difficulty of being the first woman to do anything. In her opening remarks, she said, “What does it take to be the first female anything? … It takes grit and it...
The Superiority of The Feminine

The Superiority of The Feminine

The feminine qualities of compassion and cooperation, in which women excel, are more in tune with the rapid evolution of the planet’s consciousness than the aggressive, competitive qualities of men. The world’s consciousness has changed a great deal in the...