Category: #Feminism
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Women’s March and “The Iron Butterfly”
When I heard about the hullabaloo about the Women’s March, I could not help thinking about my grandmother portrayed in my book called “The Iron Butterfly” Unlike the boisterous women some of the marchers were, my grandmother tackled the equality rights silently some 90 years ago when equality rights were still unheard of. She had…
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Excerpts from “The Iron Butterfly”
Chapter 3, page 31-35 The orderlies placed Eugenio on the far end of the ward. Dr. Contreras went back out of the emergency room and came back with a surgeon in tow. The doctor acknowledged Regina’s presence by merely nodding his head and went right to take Eugenio’s vital signs. His pulse was terribly weak…
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Today is International Women’s Day
Salute to all the women on International Women’s Day! Today, I want to honor my grandmother for her courage and daring ambition to be the best she could be given the circumstance she was in at that time. She was the inspiration for my latest book, “The Iron Butterfly”. She was a feminist before the word came…
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