Comments on: It’s a struggle http://meredithefken.com/blog/2006/10/05/womens-voices/a-struggle/ Stories of extraordinary every-day women, stay-at-home moms (SAHMs), and adoptive parents. Tue, 06 Jan 2009 21:55:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Purplemoose Gazette » Blog Archive » October??? http://meredithefken.com/blog/2006/10/05/womens-voices/a-struggle/#comment-473 Purplemoose Gazette » Blog Archive » October??? Sat, 07 Oct 2006 18:10:01 +0000 http://meredithefken.com/blog/2006/10/05/womens-voices/a-struggle/#comment-473 [...] Oh - and Meredith at Violet Voices published two more of my pieces. Follow the links here to them. [...] [...] Oh - and Meredith at Violet Voices published two more of my pieces. Follow the links here to them. [...]

]]> By: barbara http://meredithefken.com/blog/2006/10/05/womens-voices/a-struggle/#comment-465 barbara Thu, 05 Oct 2006 16:25:12 +0000 http://meredithefken.com/blog/2006/10/05/womens-voices/a-struggle/#comment-465 Amy, thanks for a thoughtful reply. I am still in touch with my alma mater and receive several publications a year from them. The students today are taught to give and give some more to their community - much moreso than I was. And - I am smiling because the nuns quit wearing habits the year after I graduated. Imagine my ingrained shock at seeing a nun's knees (it was the 60's) as she sat on the same city bus as I. >.. Amy,
thanks for a thoughtful reply. I am still in touch with my alma mater and receive several publications a year from them. The students today are taught to give and give some more to their community - much moreso than I was.

And - I am smiling because the nuns quit wearing habits the year after I graduated. Imagine my ingrained shock at seeing a nun’s knees (it was the 60’s) as she sat on the same city bus as I.

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]]> By: Amy http://meredithefken.com/blog/2006/10/05/womens-voices/a-struggle/#comment-463 Amy Thu, 05 Oct 2006 14:28:59 +0000 http://meredithefken.com/blog/2006/10/05/womens-voices/a-struggle/#comment-463 Barbara, I would like to invite you to find a way to explore the world of Catholic school today. Maybe seeing that there are hardly any people in black (we have one priest teaching part time, zero nuns--and the one nun in our parish does not wear a habit of any sort) would help you to see us differently. We encourage our students to think outside the box, to love and serve their community and to question their faith because that's how they will make it their own. I admire your ability to respect people, by the way. I really do. I am angry at my own cynicism about government sometimes. I was just starting to let my students' enthusiasm as we study the Constitution get to me and kill that cynicism...so of course another reprehensible Congressional scandal has broken out. Barbara, I would like to invite you to find a way to explore the world of Catholic school today. Maybe seeing that there are hardly any people in black (we have one priest teaching part time, zero nuns–and the one nun in our parish does not wear a habit of any sort) would help you to see us differently. We encourage our students to think outside the box, to love and serve their community and to question their faith because that’s how they will make it their own.

I admire your ability to respect people, by the way. I really do. I am angry at my own cynicism about government sometimes. I was just starting to let my students’ enthusiasm as we study the Constitution get to me and kill that cynicism…so of course another reprehensible Congressional scandal has broken out.

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