by Michele Genthon | Nov 10, 2014 | FIRST WOMEN, Politics and Government
It’s hard to believe it took until 2014, but Iowa just elected its first woman to serve in Congress. Joni Ernst won her seat by casting herself as a “farm girl” who was comfortable castrating pigs. In Utah, Mia Love was the first black female Republican elected to the...
by Michele Genthon | Jul 16, 2014 | MUSINGS, Reading
Elizabeth Warren’s A Fighting Chance is must reading for all American citizens but especially for mothers, for dog lovers, and for anyone who thinks they have gotten a raw deal from those who control this country’s economy. The book is like a rolling ocean wave. It...