by Nancy Swisher | Jun 5, 2026 | Blog
How many of you have read Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own? It’s a classic in feminist literature. Yet, if you know about Virginia’s life, she definitely had a voice of her own but she didn’t have the cultural and personal support to heal from her trauma. I wrote...
by Nancy Swisher | May 11, 2026 | Blog
Because my mother died when I was just seven years old (became very ill when I was two), I’ve actually explored what mothering is from an experience of the absence of the physical mother. There have been profound gifts I’ve gained from this. And, of...
by Nancy Swisher | Mar 12, 2026 | Blog
It’s International Women’s Day today, March 8. (Every other day is International Men’s Day.) The photo above is me cooling off in a fountain in DC while demonstrating for the ERA ratification. It’s still not ratified, by the way. We need to see the patriarchal...
by Nancy Swisher | Feb 9, 2026 | Blog
When I was moving out of my house in Iowa recently, I was fortunate to find a wonderful man to help me take things to the dump to recycle that I couldn’t lift myself. As we drove past his sister’s house, he told me that she paints. He said that her house is filled...
by Nancy Swisher | Jan 1, 2026 | Blog
I’ve spent the last ten days doing nothing. When we do nothing, we are able to drop down, to listen lowly. I’ve been doing that, which I suppose is not nothing. And since I’ve just moved locations 700 miles east back to the Appalachians, I’ve also been tracing my...
