It had been quite sometime since I slept on a mattress and treating me to such delicious food. We meet with US Senators Rubio and Nelson‘s staff to ask them to co-sponsor US Senators Cardin’s and Kirk‘s resolution S.J. Res. 15: A joint resolution removing the deadline for the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment, which was introduced in…
Read more
Since heading out of Springfield, Illinois last November 2014, it has been difficult to keeping up with all the demands being made on me emotionally, physically, financially and spiritually. Walking in the snow and getting feverish dampened my spirits, as did a horrible case of poison ivy and chiggers. Currently, the torrential down pours is…
Read more
As I was en route to Springfield, IL, to call upon the Illinois General Assembly to Vote YES so that Illinois could be the first state in the 21st Century to Ratify the Equal Rights Amendment, dearest Mother Alla, the Rev. Alla Bozarth sent me this beautiful poem Miracles Happen After Hard Work she wrote…
Read more
It seems like there are not enough hours in the day but in God’s Time where we all live in peace and harmony there is Eternity. Eternity, a concept that Einstein attempted to define with his Theory of Relativity, a concept as a young scientist I pondered when I worked at the Mercury Test Site in 1978…
Read more
It is not often that I am awestruck. But I just had my socks blown off by a quiet spoken woman. We met over a cup of coffee at the McDonald’s on Main Street here in Joplin, MO. I had engaged her as she had a bright red T-shirt, which had caught my eye. There…
Read more
…I have met a number of folks and from a wide variety of backgrounds, one fellow a dear gent who identified himself as a former bad boy who got into trouble in his youth was very clear on how he felt about the government being involved in an issue of privacy. His thinking is inline…
Read more
Helene Swanson and the Rev. Robert T. Coolidge at the Chapel of the Lady of Walsingham, Trinity Church Seneca Falls, NY on July 29, 2012 on her first pilgrimage to promote the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment following morning prayer lead by Rev. Coolidge. Â Photo Credit: William Swanson Dearest Family and Friends, It was…
Read more
One of my first college writing assignments was on The Scream. I identified with it as the painting invoked strong feelings as I thought of my mother who lost all of her hair when a red brick fell nine stories striking her smack dab in the middle of her skull as she had thrown herself…
Read more
This amazing pilgrimage I am making across the United States of America for the Equal Rights Amendment is dedicated to my beloved husband Brother William Gaines Swanson who stood by my side and encouraged me to undertake the calling his mother the Rev. Katrina Swanson asked us to undertake in her last year of life. Read…
Read more
I arrived in Carson City last night April 10th, 2014 and was taken in by Sabrina, a young lady who is the sole provider of her family. Â Sabrina is a mere 20 years old and has put her education on hold to take care of her two younger siblings and her mother. Â She hopes, one…
Read more
