I’ll Be Your Blue Sky – Evocative and Heartfelt
On the weekend of her wedding, Clare Hobbes is having second thoughts. Her fiancé, Zach, seems like a great catch. He’s handsome, a law school star from a wealthy family. She thinks she loves him, but red flags keep popping up. He’s really, really into Clare. If she reads a book, he wants to read […]
WAT-CAST: Shannon Walker Talks About Northwest Battle Buddies, Service Dogs, and Helping Veterans
On January 28, a woman was not allowed to board a United Airlines flight from Newark to Los Angeles with her emotional support animal, a Peacock named Derek. It was the proverbial straw that broke the camel’s back. (No one has attempted to board with a camel yet, but who knows?) According to an article in […]
WAT-CAST – Karetta Hubbard and Lynne Revo-Cohen Talk About Sexual Harassment
The headlines keep coming, forcing another high level executive to resign after women come forward alleging sexual misconduct in the workplace. Karetta Hubbard and Lynne-Revo Cohen, launched NewPoint Strategies more than 30 years ago and built a reputation for helping corporations deal with serious issues, including sexual harassment and sexual assault. Along with Chris Kilmartin […]
WAT-CAST: Linda Lajterman Talks About Life After You and 19 Daniel Highway
Four years ago this month, Linda Lajterman’s son, Danny, died from a drug overdose. A month after his death, she wrote a Facebook post warning other families to be more vigilant. Her message was clear: “If it could happen to my family, it could happen to yours.” The response was overwhelming. She received messages not […]
Alafair Burke Asks How Loyal Should The Wife Be?
Alafair Burke’s new novel, The Wife, has so many twists and turns it’s like trying to keep track of a runaway train. The story starts out innocently enough – girl (Angela) meets boy (Jason) during a dinner party in the Hamptons. Angela’s company is catering the event; Jason is a guest. A single mother with […]
4,380 Nights Takes Us Inside Guantanamo
Washington, D.C.’s Women’s Voices Theater Festival is producing a series of plays intending to disrupt our thinking about how we operate as a people and a nation. Annalisa Dias’ 4,380 Nights may be the hardest hitting of these productions, taking us inside Guantanamo where 41 men suspected of terrorist activity are still being detained, some […]
The Cherokee Nation Wages a Battle for Sovereignty
Sovereignty is the power that a country has to govern itself or another country or state. Collins English Dictionary When a drunk white man wearing a Trump T-shirt stumbles into a bar on Cherokee lands and is subsequently evicted, we have our first hint that Mary Kathryn Nagle won’t hesitate to include current politics into her […]
P.D. James Farewell – A Terrific Collection of Short Stories
To fans who have enjoyed – no, loved – P.D. James’ novels featuring Adam Dalgliesh, a Scotland Yard investigator who also wrote poetry, this collection of short stores, published after her death on November 27, 2014, is bittersweet. Already we miss her intelligent prose and plots that left us guessing until the last page. We […]