I am eighty-four years old and I have much to be thankful for. I have been a feminist activist since 1963, when I testified before a Congressional committee on behalf of the Equal Pay Act for the ACLU, and I am grateful for all the changes I have seen since then and that I am able to continue my activities as an advocate for women.
I am thankful that I live in Sarasota, FL, where I have the most active social and cultural life of any time and place in my life.
Finally, I am thankful for my busy work schedule. Currently, I am editing a play based on my memoir written by Neil Cole, one of Australia's top playwrights, that we hope to see produced in Australia and the US.
I am also editing my late brother Hermann's diary that he began keeping in Berlin, Germany, in 1932 when the Nazis began their rise to power, and ended in 1935 when we were living in the Bronx, NY. The original is in the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC, but this edited version will go on the website of the Museum of Family History.
I am working on a speech I will deliver on April 6, 2013, at the Congregation for Humanistic Judaism in Sarasota, FL.
I am working as a volunteer with UnidosNow, a local organization devoting to bettering the conditions for Hispanics in Sarasota, by introducing them to top officials in community organizations so they can build bridges to those organizations.
I am preparing for an interview this afternoon for Sarasota Community Radio Station WSLR on my campaign to have Phyllis Schlafly removed as a Groundbreaker for women's rights on the website and upcoming film of makers.com.
Finally, after the first of the year, I will begin writing ad hoc columns for the "Sarasota News Leader," a new progressive online newspaper.
I am eighty-four years old and I have much to be thankful for. I have been a feminist activist since 1963, when I testified before a Congressional committee on behalf of the Equal Pay Act for the ACLU, and I am grateful for all the changes I have seen since then and that I am able to continue my activities as an advocate for women.
I am thankful that I live in Sarasota, FL, where I have the most active social and cultural life of any time and place in my life.
Finally, I am thankful for my busy work schedule. Currently, I am editing a play based on my memoir written by Neil Cole, one of Australia's top playwrights, that we hope to see produced in Australia and the US.
I am also editing my late brother Hermann's diary that he began keeping in Berlin, Germany, in 1932 when the Nazis began their rise to power, and ended in 1935 when we were living in the Bronx, NY. The original is in the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC, but this edited version will go on the website of the Museum of Family History.
I am working on a speech I will deliver on April 6, 2013, at the Congregation for Humanistic Judaism in Sarasota, FL.
I am working as a volunteer with UnidosNow, a local organization devoting to bettering the conditions for Hispanics in Sarasota, by introducing them to top officials in community organizations so they can build bridges to those organizations.
I am preparing for an interview this afternoon for Sarasota Community Radio Station WSLR on my campaign to have Phyllis Schlafly removed as a Groundbreaker for women's rights on the website and upcoming film of makers.com.
Finally, after the first of the year, I will begin writing ad hoc columns for the "Sarasota News Leader," a new progressive online newspaper.