If Women Ran the World, Sh*t Would Get Done. Shelly Rachanow
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A Wonderful, Amazing, Stupendous, Inspiring, Butt-Kicking Real-Life Story
When my mom, Sally, went into labor with my brother, she thought she was prepared for anything. She'd had a standard, not-horribly-long first labor with my sister, and a dramatic, barely-made-it-to-the-hospital-and-out-ofthe- elevator-before-nearly-giving-birth-in-the-hallway labor with me. Whatever baby number three had planned for her, she knew she could handle it.
She wasn't ready, however, to hear growing panic in the doctors' voices, or to have my dad whisked from the room with no explanation. She hadn't expected to deliver a son who'd need life-saving surgery the second day of his life. Nor had she expected the doctors to advise her against the procedure. “He'll ruin your lives. He'll ruin your daughters' lives. You can still have more children. You should let him die,” they said. My mom, barely able to resist her urge to slap the doctor across the face (especially impressive considering all the postpregnancy hormones zooming through her body), said, “This is my child. He's living and breathing right now. I'm going to do whatever I can to give him the best life possible.” For the past twenty-nine years, my mom has done exactly that. It's what women do, no matter what situation we're faced with.
If Women Ran the World . . . Women would always trust and value their own opinions, not just when other people are obviously wrong, inconsiderate, and stupid.
A Butt-Kicking Inspiration
When Annie Dodge Wauneka was eight years old, an influenza epidemic killed thousands of Navajos on the reservation where she lived. The mild case she contracted left her resistant to the disease, and she helped many people too sick to help themselves.
Through the years her commitment to helping others played a role in everything she did, eventually leading to her election to the Tribal Council in 1951 (she was only the second woman to achieve this feat). While she was in office, she worked to make life better for Navajo families by improving health care for pregnant mothers and babies and explaining the importance of tuberculosis vaccinations. Because of her efforts, many Navajos experienced life-saving medical practices and better living conditions.
Annie Dodge Wauneka received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1963 and was named “The Legendary Mother of the Navajo Nation” by the Navajo Council in 1984. Recently, a book was written that details all the ways she made life better for others. It is aptly titled, I'll Go and Do More.
Check out: www.greatwomen.org
The Three Ways I Kicked Butt Today
So it's 11:00 p.m. and you're curled up in bed, trying to quiet your mind after another jam-packed day. You really want to fall asleep, because in about six hours, some annoying song is going to start blaring from your alarm (probably with a tune so cheery it could turn even the nicest person into a crazed maniac).
Unfortunately, your mind is not cooperating with you. It can't stop wondering how you're going to finish sewing your ten-year-old's school play costume by 7:00 p.m. (which is when he needs to wear it) when you have one of those all-day meetings where your lunch hour isn't really your own, and you've promised your daughter you will help her find a new top for a date she actually asked your advice about. You decide to get up an hour earlier to finish sewing, and just as you are about to fall asleep you wonder if an hour will be enough time, or if you really should be attempting to use a needle (or anything sharp for that matter) that early in the morning. Wide awake once again, you try to decide if you should turn on the light and start sewing now. You also wish the mice and birds who fixed Cinderella's ball gown made house calls.
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