Women have the right to speak their mind and conscience. Women have a powerful individual and collective voice. Big Ocean Women believe that each woman has innate power to enact change. This power is magnified when women gather together and organize. We have gathered with other like minded organizations and friends to enact a national survey regarding the general support regarding the status of women’s right to privacy and safety. The results are in! The data overwhelmingly supports and affirms that a majority of people across the country support and are concerned about the right to privacy, safety, and well-being. This is a tremendous victory for women and girls!
This data places into stark contrast the messages sent via mainstream media outlets as well as from certain leaders in government who, whether overtly or unknowingly, are shutting down the voices of women. There is overwhelming proof that voters support the right for women to maintain safety, privacy, as well as individual and collective language based on a fully sexed female body.
The time is now to join with us in creating a safe harbor for women and girls throughout the world!
As I thought about this month’s tenet, “We greatly value the unique and contributing role of families,” my mind went to the great variety of the makeup of families. It’s very true that families come in all shapes and sizes. In a perfect world, all children would be brought up in loving homes, with two…
In our society, blended families have been increasing in number. This video describes what it is like through the eyes of the children who have experienced the difficulties and the joys of joining two families together.
Few would argue that the traditional family–birth or adoptive–is without parallel in providing nurture, guidance, and support to the rising generation. As a child of divorced parents, I salute my mom who provided these essentials to me despite running our family business and rearing six children. Not every child is part of such a family,…
As a youngster I often walked the quarter mile up our country road to visit my grandparents. As I look back sixty years at those visits, I have come to realize that it wasn’t just the stick of Juicy Fruit gum from Grandpa’s pocket or the slice of fresh homemade bread that kept me returning…
The moment I knew my life was about to shift, there was what I can only describe as an internal earthquake at a 9.2 on the Richter scale. I had my youngest daughter on my hip, standing in our kitchen talking to my oldest daughter who was opening the fridge door. My oldest turned to…
Family, Such a simple word, yet it carries a magnitude of meaning. What is family? Why is this role important? If you’re reading this, take a moment and set a 30-second timer. I want you to close your eyes, take a slow deep breath in for at least 3 counts, then exhale for 5 counts…
I recently went on a rafting trip with youth from my church. When all of the planning and preparation for the trip was happening, I never thought to ask about the boats we would be in. I had been rafting before. I knew what whitewater rafts were like. I had had other water and river…
July is a special month in my country because we celebrate the founding of our nation, the birth of the idea of this free country. And really, the experiment that is the United States of America and its Constitution has had a profound influence on the world. The second paragraph of the Declaration of Independence…
I am a member of Rotary International. Rotary club members work to improve life for some of the world’s vulnerable populations. Rotary’s global grants support these efforts in communities worldwide. The grants must be sustainable, meaning they provide long-term solutions that community members themselves can support after grant funding ends. To apply for a global…
One of the realities for me of being a writing teacher is that I spend my life reading: reading books, reading craft theory, reading student drafts, reading the work of my writing group. I find myself frequently in a place to discuss with others their ideas and their opinions and their storytelling—whether they are writing…
We begin the new year with this powerful tenet: “We believe in God and are women of faith.” This is a common theme about which we speak and write. But it is more than words and ideas. It is most powerful when modeled by the examples of women who live it. We invited such women…
I met Dr. Ugochi Ohajuruka the first time I went to the U.N. Commission on the Status of Women in 2017. As I filmed her, I was so taken by her desire to lift women out of poverty and give girls the correct maturation knowledge and tools to build a good foundation for the future.…
