Category Archives: Death
Fourth Thursday in November
Note: This was written as an assignment for Death and the Maiden Pushing my cart through the grocery store I reflected that while on the surface my mission was the same as my peers, gathering food for a Thursday feast, … Continue reading
Note: This was an assignment for Death and the Maiden I came to Goddess worship as a recovering Baptist who was tired of being treated like a second class citizen in a church that valued the male over the female. … Continue reading
Academic: The Spectrum of Women and Death
Link: The Spectrum of Women and Death Women are the dead. Women care for the dead. Women advocate for the dead. Throughout history, women’s roles related to death have ranged from passive victims posed for men’s entertainment, to caretakers of … Continue reading
Mothers as Activists and Advocates
Note: This was written for Death and the Maiden A mother’s connection to her child is visceral. If she birthed him, she felt the pains of her child’s tiny body struggling to escape hers and if her child came to … Continue reading
Women, Death, and Eloquence
Note: This was an assignment for Death and the Maiden I struggled with this week’s readings as I disagreed so much with that Cixous and her musings about women writers. Women have most likely written about themselves and for themselves … Continue reading
Academic: Riddle of Femininity
Note: This was a course assignment for Death and the Maiden Thousands of years after Eve took that fateful bite of the apple and ninety years after Freud wrote that women are the problem and attributed their emotional makeup to … Continue reading
Dead White Girls
Note: This was a course assignment for Death and the Maiden I will confess upfront that I am a devotee of crime shows. I watch NCIS, FBI, and the Law and Orders. I’ve also been known to binge watch Cold Case and other shows during … Continue reading
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Academic: The More Things Change the More they Stay the Same
Note: This was a course assignment for Death and the Maiden The more things change, the more they stay the same was the refrain going through my mind as I read the assigned articles this week. The key themes of … Continue reading
Death of a Parent
Note: This post was written for my complicated grief class at Marian University The parent /child relationship is our first relationship and in many ways, it sets the tone for future relationships as we observe our how parents communicate, love, … Continue reading
Academia: Complicated Grief in Rural Appalacia
Note: This was written for a course in Complicated Grief and I eventually expanded it into a longer paper. Appalachia is a mountainous 205,000 square region of the United States that stretches from northern Mississippi to southern New York (Thacker … Continue reading