Women, Girls & the Feminine

To Women and the Men Who Love Them

by Sheila Collins | Mar 8, 2012 | Personal Stories, Women, Girls & the Feminine

It was 1985 and a woman college professor and I needed to move some boxes from an office we shared to the Women and Work Research and Resource Center, which we founded. I had asked my 19 year-old son to help and we three went about our business, carrying boxes, books,...

Who Speaks for Thee?

by Sheila Collins | Feb 18, 2012 | Personal Stories, Women, Girls & the Feminine

There I was, talking back to the television again. Waving my hands and raising my voice as though I could get the newscaster’s attention. My husband walked into the room and I attempted to enlist him in my incredulous reaction. “Look at this. It’s a roomful of men,...

Choices

by Sheila Collins | Feb 12, 2012 | Health, Personal Stories, Women, Girls & the Feminine

All the brouhaha over contraceptives in the national news lately took me back to the middle of the last century, before science had any tried and truly reliable safe methods of birth control. In those days the choices were; calculate and abstain, or take your chances....

The Ring

by Sheila Collins | Jan 11, 2012 | Personal Stories, Women, Girls & the Feminine

I was eleven years old the year my mother’s younger sister, our Aunt Dote, graduated from college. As a World War II veteran, she took advantage of the GI Bill and, while working full time, completed her degree in six years. She graduated second in her class, and my...

Performing Arts are for Healing

by Sheila Collins | Sep 27, 2011 | Art & Life, Personal Stories, Women, Girls & the Feminine

Does it ever happen to you, that life takes you just where you need to be? Such a thing happened to me when a friend invited me to a viewing of the film, Tapestries of Hope. www.tapestriesofhope.com I’d received an email invitation from the Girls’ Coalition of...

From One Dancer To Another

by Sheila Collins | Jul 16, 2011 | Women, Girls & the Feminine

“Mom was a dancer, and she loved to dance,” your son said at your eulogy. I’d forgotten you’d begun your public life as a dancer with Martha Graham. Looking back on your rich and rewarding life, I can see the marks of that first profession on the phases that followed....

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Loss is inevitable, yet too often we bury our grief, pretending we're OK when we're not.

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