The dozens of sexual-assault claims against Bill Cosby strike me on multiple levels. Even though we live in an era that is meant to typify major advancement in women’s rights and issues through the centuries, it seems like we are sometimes still in the dark ages. Based on systemic, religious and cultural influences, there are…
What does thankfulness really mean? Thankful we are alive? Thankful we can fish in the streams and pick fruit off vines? Thankful for a man’s hand at the small of your back? Thankful for a woman’s yearning eyes? Thankful when we can stop breathing in memories from the leaving trains? Thankful for a reverberating heart…
I have both a professional and personal interest in the Ebola crisis. As someone with journalism and healthcare public relations (PR) experience – and as the daughter of a career foreign service officer who lived in Western Africa – I’ve watched as the world has cumulatively crawled toward a response. When I was a year…
No matter whether you are happy or disappointed with the outcome of Maryland’s gubernatorial race, what happened in Charles County, Md., on Tuesday proved the validity of two adages: all politics is local and government is for the people and by the people. The resounding defeat of a charter form of government and the landslide…
Debra Zimmerman Murphey 