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Why The COVID-19 Vaccine Should Be Shared
At long last, my state of Missouri feels some relief as all immunization tiers are eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine and more local vaccination appointments become available. No one thought vaccine rollout would be easy. Nor did Americans think it would be this hard....
Nine Minutes And Twenty-Nine Seconds
In May of 2020, the world was forced to slow down due to the COVID-19 pandemic. After Memorial Day, people from around the world watched as George Floyd took his last breath while former Officer Derek Chauvin knelt on his neck. For nine minutes and...
My Race is Human…and Asian
Photo Credit: Joshua Hoehne When you walk down the street, can you tell what nationality I am? Can you tell from the color of my skin that I’m American, besides being Asian? Or even more so, an Asian Jew? These questions may not enter one’s mind in passing, but don’t...
EGYPT: Discover More about Yourself by Stretching Your Comfort Zone
We all tend to stay in our comfort zone. It’s safer and more comfortable even if we are not totally satisfied with our lives. To make a change and discover more about our strengths we need to get out of our comfort zone, experience discomfort, and challenge ourselves....
Happy International Women’s Day!
It's been over 10 years since World Moms Network published its first post. We're still all here in the trenches. Planning new things for 2021. Watch this space over the next few months. We are reorganizing and getting our site touched up! In the meantime, I'd like to...
USA: Love in the Rubble of Life
February 18, 2021 Yesterday, February 17, 2021, our daughter Sophia and son Wesley (& their grandpa) planned a surprise date for my husband Don and me. I left at around 10 am to go clean an office. On my way, I made a couple of stops and did a prayer recording for...
The Evolution of r(E)volutionary Woman Podcast
So it started as a conversation with my husband in the car. As far as I can remember, I’ve always been a writer. I’ve written poems, lyrics and, for many years, contributed various articles to different publications. I started my blog, The Pinay Perspective, ten years...
Increase of Domestic Violence Globally during COVID-19
While countries around the world are dealing with different stages of lockdowns and reopenings, the state of women’s safety has been put off to the side. The focus on COVID-19 has been ever-present and with good reason. The number of cases continue to rise around the...
Topless in the USA : Breast Cancer Awareness Month
This time last year I found myself laying topless on a bed with laser beams dancing across my breasts. How strange, I remember thinking, to so cavalierly take my shirt off for so many different people after being married for over 20 years. I can’t say I’d ever been...
Lockdown Reflections: Musings From a COVID-19 Warrior’s Wife (Part 2)
My husband’s COVID-19 experience has awakened many feelings that seem to be coming to my conscious mind in layers, in time.
Lockdown Reflections: Musings From a COVID-19 Warrior’s Wife (Part1)
Jennifer Burden, the founder of World Moms Network, asked me to share my family’s COVID-19 story from India. I have been reluctant because our hearts go out to so many I know, who have lost family and friends near and dear to them in India and across the world, from...
India: Voices of High School Students: Altruism from Youth #YouthDay #OmegaIntlSchool
On the International Day of Youth, World Moms Network - Senior Editor, Purnima from India, met with a few young high school students. Read on to find their take on the state of affairs of the world, their life ahead in times of this pandemic, their passion, their ways...
How great (or not so great) is your country to raise a child?
Photo credit to Save the Children. Introduction to the Global Childhood Report 2020 How does your country rank when it comes to the lives of children? As World Moms, our hearts are with children, and we’ve been buzzing about Save the Children’s Global Childhood Report...
World Voice: Malaysian Women Balancing Business Appearance and Homelife
How would you react if someone said you needed to “look” better for work? Would you acquiesce or question it? Photo Credit: https://unsplash.com/photos/n7Cq2rdd73E Most of the world is under different stages of working from home due to coronavirus. While Asian...
World Voice: Gender Inequality Amidst #Coronavirus
As we all try to wade through the chaos brought on by Coronavirus, it has also given way to other sentiments that are less than desirable: gender inequality. Since the outbreak of COVID-19 in China, there has been a large number of women who have been affected the...
Social Distancing When We Are Socially Connected
COVID-19 has thrust so many from different countries to be on alert. Every day, the rules and regulations from different governments are changing, not just in the United States, but on a global level. When this virus made its presence known in December in Wuhan,...
Social Distancing is Kindness: #FlattenTheCurve
Americans are known for our spirit of rugged individualism. We love to celebrate individual creativity, ingenuity, entrepreneurship, and volunteerism. It can be inspiring! Except when it comes to fighting a global pandemic. The United States is a few weeks behind...
Discrimination Due To Menstruation
Universally, women and girls menstruate. The age may vary for every young girl, but the experience can be traumatic, sometimes even deadly. I recently came upon two news items that shocked and saddened me. The first story was of an 11-year-old girl from the UK who had...
India: A New Journey as a Published Author of Children’s Books
Writing a book is a passion for few, an easy one for some, the most difficult exercise but which has to be done for a few others and for a chosen few, it’s a call from God. Such people have no idea about the journey they would have to undertake to bring it out. Little...
WORLD VOICE: Eco-Conscious Beyond the Climate Strike
It was almost the end of October but high temperatures heated up across Southern California. It made me think about global warming. Last month young people across this country organized strikes and marches in many cities, suggesting that adults have not done a great...
WORLD VOICE: “Listen,” Said the Heart, “The Trees are Talking”
Sometimes, when the breeze passes through the trees, I ask my children if they hear the wind and the leaves make music and if they see them dancing. Have you ever heard this music? Have you ever seen this dance? I hope you have. It’s quite beautiful. This past July I...
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