#MeToo- What They Heard After Finding Their Voice

Yesterday’s New York Times featured an article titled “How Saying #MeToo Changed Their Lives”. It featured 20 men and women who spoke about about their  experiences of sexual assault or harassment and the positive, negative, unexpected, and...

Let’s Create a New Vision of “Me Too” in 2018

Looking back at 2017, it’s impossible not to notice how issues of gender inequality, harassment and sexual violence were in the forefront of our consciousness throughout the year…culminating in mid-October with a viral #MeToo twitterstorm that was a rallying cry...

To the god of doorways… and noticing the silence

The Roman god Janus was the god of doorways, transitions, and new beginnings. It’s fitting that the our first month was named in his honor, because we spend those first days of the new year contemplating where we’ve been, where we’d like to be and...

26…3… 3.5 …70,000… Infinite

I’ve got a lot of numbers in my head today. 26   It’s been 26 days since the launch of the Purple Purse Challenge.3  We’re currently in third place in the nation. 3.5 We’ve got 3.5 days left in the Challenge....

Because She Sees Wellspring at the End of the Poem

In the past few months I have been highlighting some incredible people in our community who were gracious enough to work with us in our Purple Purse Leaders campaign.  Now that October is almost over and the campaign is winding down, I wanted to highlight one...